Bible-Reading.comPsalm 105
1Give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.
2Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.
3Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
4Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
5Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,
6O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
7He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth.
8He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—
9the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
10He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
11“I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
12When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,
13they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
14He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:
15“Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
16He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
17He sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a slave.
18They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
19until his prediction came true and the word of the LORD proved him right.
20The king sent and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.
21He made him master of his household, ruler over all his substance,
22to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.
23Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
24And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes,
25whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.
26He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.
27They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
28He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words.
29He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die.
30Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.
31He spoke, and insects swarmed— gnats throughout their country.
32He gave them hail for rain, with lightning throughout their land.
33He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.
34He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
35They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.
36Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.
37He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and none among His tribes stumbled.
38Egypt was glad when they departed, for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.
39He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
40They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
42For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
43He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.
44He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
45that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
Psalm 106
1Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
2Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?
3Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
4Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
5that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.
6We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
7Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
8Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
10He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.
12Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.
13Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
14They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
15So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
16In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.
17The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.
18Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.
19At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
20They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
21They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
24They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
25They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
26So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
27to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
28They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
29So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
30But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
31It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
32At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
33For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
34They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
37They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
39They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
40So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
41He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
42Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.
43Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
44Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.
45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
46He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.
47Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.
48Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!
Psalm 107
1Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
2Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy
3and gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.
4Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
5They were hungry and thirsty; their soul fainted within them.
6Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.
7He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.
8Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
9For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
11because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.
12He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
13Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
15Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
16For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
17Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
18They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
19Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
20He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.
21Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
22Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.
23Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.
24They saw the works of the LORD, and His wonders in the deep.
25For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.
26They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.
27They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.
28Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.
29He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
30They rejoiced in the silence, and He guided them to the harbor they desired.
31Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
32Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people and praise Him in the council of the elders.
33He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,
34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
35He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
36He causes the hungry to settle there, that they may establish a city in which to dwell.
37They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.
38He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
39When they are decreased and humbled by oppression, evil, and sorrow,
40He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
41But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
42The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
43Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.