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[1]Alleluia. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles.
[2]Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.
[3]Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.
[4]Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.
[5]Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.
[6]O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.
[7]He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
[8]He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
[9]Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:
[10]And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament:
[11]Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.
[12]When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:
[13]And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.
[14]He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.
[15]Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.
[16]And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.
[17]He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.
[18]They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,
[19]until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.
[20]The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.
[21]He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession.
[22]That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom.
[23]And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.
[24]And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies,
[25]He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants.
[26]He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.
[27]He gave them power to shew his signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.
[28]He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.
[29]He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.
[30]Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings.
[31]He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts.
[32]He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.
[33]And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.
[34]He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number.
[35]And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground.
[36]And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour.
[37]And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble.
[38]Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them.
[39]He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.
[40]They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.
[41]He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.
[42]Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.
[43]And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.
[44]And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people:
[45]That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his law.
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