¹ Give praise to the Lord and announce who he is.
Tell the nations what he has done.
² Sing to him, sing praise to him.
Tell about all the wonderful things he has done.
³ Praise him, because his name is holy.
Let the hearts of those who trust in the Lord be glad.
⁴ Seek the Lord and the strength he gives.
Always seek him.
⁵ Remember the wonderful things he has done.
Remember his miracles and how he judged our enemies.
⁶ Remember what he has done, you children of his servant Abraham.
Remember it, you people of Jacob, God’s chosen ones.
⁷ He is the Lord our God.
He judges the whole earth.
⁸ He will keep his covenant forever.
He will keep his promise for all time to come.
⁹ He will keep the covenant he made with Abraham.
He will keep the promise he made to Isaac.
¹⁰ He made it stand as a law for Jacob.
He made it stand as a covenant for Israel that will last forever.
¹¹ He said, “I will give you the land of Canaan.
It will belong to you.”
¹² At first there weren’t very many of God’s people.
There were only a few, and they were strangers in the land.
¹³ They wandered from nation to nation.
They wandered from one kingdom to another.
¹⁴ But God didn’t allow anyone to treat them badly.
To keep them safe, he gave a command to kings.
¹⁵ He said to them, “Do not touch my anointed ones.
Do not harm my prophets.”
¹⁶ He made the people in the land go hungry.
He destroyed all their food supplies.
¹⁷ He sent a man ahead of them into Egypt.
That man was Joseph. He had been sold as a slave.
¹⁸ The Egyptians put his feet in chains.
They put an iron collar around his neck.
¹⁹ He was in prison until what he said would happen came true.
The word of the Lord proved that he was right.
²⁰ The king of Egypt sent for Joseph and let him out of prison.
The ruler of many nations set him free.
²¹ He put Joseph in charge of his palace.
He made him ruler over everything he owned.
²² Joseph was in charge of teaching the princes.
He taught the elders how to think and live wisely.
²³ Then the rest of Jacob’s family went to Egypt.
The people of Israel lived as outsiders in the land of Ham.
²⁴ The Lord gave his people so many children
that there were too many of them for their enemies.
²⁵ He made the Egyptians hate his people.
The Egyptians made evil plans against them.
²⁶ The Lord sent his servant Moses to the king of Egypt.
He sent Aaron, his chosen one, along with him.
²⁷ The Lord gave them the power to do signs among the Egyptians.
They did his wonders in the land of Ham.
²⁸ The Lord sent darkness over the land.
He did it because the Egyptians had refused to obey his words.
²⁹ He turned their rivers and streams into blood.
He caused the fish in them to die.
³⁰ Their land was covered with frogs.
Frogs even went into the bedrooms of the rulers.
³¹ The Lord spoke, and large numbers of flies came.
Gnats filled the whole country.
³² He turned their rain into hail.
Lightning flashed all through their land.
³³ He destroyed their vines and fig trees.
He broke down the trees in Egypt.
³⁴ He spoke, and the locusts came.
There were so many of them they couldn’t be counted.
³⁵ They ate up every green thing in the land.
They ate up what the land produced.
³⁶ Then he killed the oldest son of every family in Egypt.
He struck down the oldest of all their sons.
³⁷ He brought the people of Israel out of Egypt.
The Egyptians loaded them down with silver and gold.
From among the tribes of Israel no one got tired or fell down.
³⁸ The Egyptians were glad when the people of Israel left.
They were terrified because of Israel.
³⁹ The Lord spread out a cloud to cover his people.
He gave them a fire to light up the night.
⁴⁰ They asked for meat, and he brought them quail.
He fed them well with manna, the bread of heaven.
⁴¹ He broke open a rock, and streams of water poured out.
They flowed like a river in the desert.
⁴² He remembered the holy promise
he had made to his servant Abraham.
⁴³ His chosen people shouted for joy
as he brought them out of Egypt.
⁴⁴ He gave them the lands of other nations.
He let them take over what others had worked for.
⁴⁵ He did it so they might obey his rules
and follow his laws.

Praise the Lord.