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[1]Give ye thanks to Jehovah -- call ye in His name, Make known among the peoples His acts.
[2]Sing ye to Him -- sing praise to Him, Meditate ye on all His wonders.
[3]Boast yourselves in His Holy Name, The heart of those seeking Jehovah rejoiceth.
[4]Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek ye His face continually.
[5]Remember His wonders that He did, His signs and the judgments of His mouth.
[6]O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
[7]He [is] Jehovah our God, In all the earth [are] His judgments.
[8]He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations,
[9]That He hath made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,
[10]And doth establish it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during,
[11]Saying, `To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,'
[12]In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.
[13]And they go up and down, from nation unto nation, From a kingdom unto another people.
[14]He hath not suffered any to oppress them And He reproveth for their sakes kings.
[15]`Strike not against Mine anointed, And to My prophets do not evil.'
[16]And He calleth a famine on the land, The whole staff of bread He hath broken.
[17]He hath sent before them a man, For a servant hath Joseph been sold.
[18]They have afflicted with fetters his feet, Iron hath entered his soul,
[19]Till the time of the coming of His word The saying of Jehovah hath tried him.
[20]The king hath sent, and looseth him, The ruler of the peoples, and draweth him out.
[21]He hath made him lord of his house, And ruler over all his possessions.
[22]To bind his chiefs at his pleasure, And his elders he maketh wise.
[23]And Israel cometh in to Egypt, And Jacob hath sojourned in the land of Ham.
[24]And He maketh His people very fruitful, And maketh it mightier than its adversaries.
[25]He turned their heart to hate His people, To conspire against His servants.
[26]He hath sent Moses His servant, Aaron whom He had fixed on.
[27]They have set among them the matters of His signs, And wonders in the land of Ham.
[28]He hath sent darkness, and it is dark, And they have not provoked His word.
[29]He hath turned their waters to blood, And putteth to death their fish.
[30]Teemed hath their land [with] frogs, In the inner chambers of their kings.
[31]He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border.
[32]He hath made their showers hail, A flaming fire [is] in their land.
[33]And He smiteth their vine and their fig, And shivereth the trees of their border.
[34]He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm -- innumerable,
[35]And it consumeth every herb in their land, And it consumeth the fruit of their ground.
[36]And He smiteth every first-born in their land, The first-fruit of all their strength,
[37]And bringeth them out with silver and gold, And there is not in its tribes a feeble one.
[38]Rejoiced hath Egypt in their going forth, For their fear had fallen upon them.
[39]He hath spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten the night.
[40]They have asked, and He bringeth quails, And [with] bread of heaven satisfieth them.
[41]He hath opened a rock, and waters issue, They have gone on in dry places -- a river.
[42]For He hath remembered His holy word, With Abraham His servant,
[43]And He bringeth forth His people with joy, With singing His chosen ones.
[44]And He giveth to them the lands of nations, And the labour of peoples they possess,
[45]That they may observe His statutes, And His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!
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