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