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[1]Give thanks to the Lord, and call upon his name; declare his works among the heathen.
[2]Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: tell forth all his wonderful works.
[3]Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice.
[4]Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened; seek his face continually.
[5]Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
[6]ye seed of Abraam, his servants, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
[7]He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
[8]He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generation:
[9]which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and he remembered his oath to Isaac.
[10]And he established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant;
[11]saying To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance:
[12]when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it.
[13]And they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.
[14]He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes:
[15]saying, Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm.
[16]Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole support of bread.
[17]He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave.
[18]They hurt his feet with fetters; his soul passed into iron,
[19]until the time that his cause came on; the word of the Lord tried him as fire.
[20]The king sent and loosed him; even the prince of the people, and let him go free.
[21]He made him Lord over his house, and ruler of all his substance;
[22]to chastise his rulers at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.
[23]Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Cham.
[24]And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.
[25]And he turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.
[26]He sent fort Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.
[27]He established among them his signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.
[28]He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; yet they rebelled against his words.
[29]He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
[30]Their land produced frogs abundantly, in the chambers of their kings.
[31]He spoke, and the dog-fly came, and lice in all their coasts.
[32]He turned their rain into hail, and sent flaming fire in their land.
[33]And he smote their vines and their fig trees; and broke every tree of their coast.
[34]He spoke, and the locust came, and caterpillars innumerable,
[35]and devoured all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of the ground.
[36]He smote also every first-born of their land, the first-fruits of all their labour.
[37]And he brought them out with silver and gold; and there was not a feeble one among their tribes.
[38]Egypt rejoiced at their departing; for the fear of them fell upon them.
[39]He spread out a cloud for a covering to them, and fire to give them light by night.
[40]They asked, and the quail came, and he satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
[41]He clave the rock, and the waters flowed, rivers ran in dry places.
[42]For he remembered his holy word, which he promised to Abraam his servant.
[43]And he brought out his people with exultation, and his chosen with joy;
[44]and gave them the lands of the heathen; and they inherited the labours of the people;
[45]that they might keep his ordinances, and diligently seek his law.
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