Tell of His Wonders
(1 Chronicles 16:7–22)

1Prayse the Lord, and call vpon his Name: declare his workes among the people.

2Sing vnto him, sing prayse vnto him, and talke of all his wonderous workes.

3Reioyce in his holy Name: let the heart of them that seeke the Lord, reioyce.

4Seeke the Lord and his strength: seeke his face continually.

5Remember his marueilous woorkes, that he hath done, his wonders and the iudgements of his mouth,

6Ye seede of Abraham his seruant, ye children of Iaakob, which are his elect.

7He is the Lorde our God: his iudgements are through all the earth.

8He hath alway remembred his couenant & promes, that he made to a thousand generations,

9Euen that which he made with Abraham, and his othe vnto Izhak:

10And since hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a lawe, and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant,

11Saying, Vnto thee will I giue the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.

12Albeit they were fewe in nomber, yea, very fewe, and strangers in the land,

13And walked about from nation to nation, from one kingdome to another people,

14Yet suffered he no man to doe them wrong, but reprooued Kings for their sakes, saying,

15Touche not mine anointed, and doe my Prophets no harme.

16Moreouer, he called a famine vpon ye land, and vtterly brake the staffe of bread.

17But he sent a man before them: Ioseph was solde for a slaue.

18They helde his feete in the stockes, and he was laide in yrons,

19Vntill his appointed time came, and the counsell of the Lord had tryed him.

20The King sent and loosed him: euen the Ruler of the people deliuered him.

21He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance,

22That he shoulde binde his princes vnto his will, and teach his Ancients wisedome.

23Then Israel came to Egypt, and Iaakob was a stranger in the land of Ham.

24And he increased his people exceedingly, and made them stronger then their oppressours.

25He turned their heart to hate his people, and to deale craftily with his seruants.

26Then sent he Moses his seruant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.

27They shewed among them the message of his signes, and wonders in the land of Ham.

28He sent darkenesse, and made it darke: and they were not disobedient vnto his commission.

29He turned their waters into blood, and slewe their fish.

30Their land brought foorth frogs, euen in their Kings chambers.

31He spake, and there came swarmes of flies and lice in all their quarters.

32He gaue them haile for raine, and flames of fire in their land.

33He smote their vines also and their figge trees, and brake downe the trees in their coastes.

34He spake, and the grashoppers came, and caterpillers innumerable,

35And did eate vp all the grasse in their land, and deuoured the fruite of their ground.

36He smote also all the first borne in their land, euen the beginning of all their strength.

37He brought them forth also with siluer and golde, and there was none feeble among their tribes.

38Egypt was glad at their departing: for the feare of them had fallen vpon them.

39He spred a cloude to be a couering, and fire to giue light in the night.

40They asked, and he brought quailes, and he filled them with the bread of heauen.

41He opened the rocke, and the waters flowed out, and ranne in the drye places like a riuer.

42For he remembred his holy promes to Abraham his seruant,

43And he brought forth his people with ioy, and his chosen with gladnesse,

44And gaue them the lands of the heathen, and they tooke the labours of the people in possession,

45That they might keepe his statutes, and obserue his Lawes. Prayse ye the Lord.