Psalms 105:1-22 ▼

1 Give thanks to YHWH; call on His name; make known among the nations His deeds!

2 Sing to Him, make music to Him; meditate on all His wonders!

3 Glory in the name of His holiness; let the heart of those seeking YHWH rejoice!

4 Search after YHWH and His strength; seek His face continually.

5 Remember His wonders that He has done—His wonders and the judgments of His mouth—

6 O seed of Abraham His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

7 He is YHWH our God; His judgments are over all the earth.

8 He remembers His covenant forever—the word He commanded for a thousand generations—

9 that which He cut with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac.

10 And He established it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a covenant forever,

11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, the portion of your⁺ inheritance.”

12 In their being few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,

13 and they went about from nation to nation, from a kingdom to another people.

14 He has permitted no man to oppress them, and He rebuked kings for them:

15 “You⁺ shall not touch My anointed ones, and to My prophets You⁺ shall not do evil.”

16 And He called down famine on the land; the whole staff of bread He has broken.

17 He sent before them a man, to be sold as a slave—Joseph.

18 They afflicted his feet with the fetters; into iron came his neck,

19 until the time of the coming of His word—the word of YHWH tried him.

20 The king sent and released him, and the ruler of the peoples drew him out.

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

22 to instruct his princes by his soul, and his elders to make wise.