Psalms 105-107

Psalm 105

¹Give ye thanks to Jehovah -- call ye in His name, Make known among the peoples His acts.

²Sing ye to Him -- sing praise to Him, Meditate ye on all His wonders.

³Boast yourselves in His Holy Name, The heart of those seeking Jehovah rejoiceth.

⁴Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek ye His face continually.

⁵Remember His wonders that He did, His signs and the judgments of His mouth.

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

⁷He is Jehovah our God, In all the earth are His judgments.

⁸He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations,

⁹That He hath made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,

¹⁰And doth establish it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during,

¹¹Saying, ‘To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,'

¹²In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.

¹³And they go up and down, from nation unto nation, From a kingdom unto another people.

¹⁴He hath not suffered any to oppress them And He reproveth for their sakes kings.

¹⁵‘Strike not against Mine anointed, And to My prophets do not evil.'

¹⁶And He calleth a famine on the land, The whole staff of bread He hath broken.

¹⁷He hath sent before them a man, For a servant hath Joseph been sold.

¹⁸They have afflicted with fetters his feet, Iron hath entered his soul,

¹⁹Till the time of the coming of His word The saying of Jehovah hath tried him.

²⁰The king hath sent, and looseth him, The ruler of the peoples, and draweth him out.

²¹He hath made him lord of his house, And ruler over all his possessions.

²²To bind his chiefs at his pleasure, And his elders he maketh wise.

²³And Israel cometh in to Egypt, And Jacob hath sojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁴And He maketh His people very fruitful, And maketh it mightier than its adversaries.

²⁵He turned their heart to hate His people, To conspire against His servants.

²⁶He hath sent Moses His servant, Aaron whom He had fixed on.

²⁷They have set among them the matters of His signs, And wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸He hath sent darkness, and it is dark, And they have not provoked His word.

²⁹He hath turned their waters to blood, And putteth to death their fish.

³⁰Teemed hath their land with frogs, In the inner chambers of their kings.

³¹He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border.

³²He hath made their showers hail, A flaming fire is in their land.

³³And He smiteth their vine and their fig, And shivereth the trees of their border.

³⁴He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm -- innumerable,

³⁵And it consumeth every herb in their land, And it consumeth the fruit of their ground.

³⁶And He smiteth every first-born in their land, The first-fruit of all their strength,

³⁷And bringeth them out with silver and gold, And there is not in its tribes a feeble one.

³⁸Rejoiced hath Egypt in their going forth, For their fear had fallen upon them.

³⁹He hath spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten the night.

⁴⁰They have asked, and He bringeth quails, And with bread of heaven satisfieth them.

⁴¹He hath opened a rock, and waters issue, They have gone on in dry places -- a river.

⁴²For He hath remembered His holy word, With Abraham His servant,

⁴³And He bringeth forth His people with joy, With singing His chosen ones.

⁴⁴And He giveth to them the lands of nations, And the labour of peoples they possess,

⁴⁵That they may observe His statutes, And His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!

Psalm 106

¹Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, is His kindness.

²Who doth utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? Soundeth all His praise?

³O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.

⁵To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.

⁶We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.

⁸And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,

⁹And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness.

¹⁰And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.

¹²And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,

¹³They have hasted -- forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

¹⁴And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

¹⁵And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.

¹⁶And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.

¹⁷Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram.

¹⁸And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.

¹⁹They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,

²⁰And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

²¹They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,

²²Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph.

²³And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.

²⁴And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.

²⁵And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.

²⁶And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

²⁷And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.

²⁸And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,

²⁹And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,

³⁰And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,

³¹And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations -- unto the age.

³²And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,

³³For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.

³⁴They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,

³⁵And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

³⁶And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.

³⁷And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers,

³⁸And they shed innocent blood -- Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood.

³⁹And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

⁴⁰And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.

⁴¹And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,

⁴²And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.

⁴³Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

⁴⁴And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,

⁴⁵And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

⁴⁶And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.

⁴⁷Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To glory in Thy praise.

⁴⁸Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, ‘Amen, praise Jah!'

Psalm 107

¹‘Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age is His kindness:'

²Let the redeemed of Jehovah say, Whom He redeemed from the hand of an adversary.

³And from the lands hath gathered them, From east and from west, From north, and from the sea.

⁴They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found.

⁵Hungry -- yea -- thirsty, Their soul in them becometh feeble,

⁶And they cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distress He delivereth them,

⁷And causeth them to tread in a right way, To go unto a city of habitation.

⁸They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men.

⁹For He hath satisfied a longing soul, And a hungry soul hath filled with goodness.

¹⁰Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,

¹¹Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised.

¹²And He humbleth with labour their heart, They have been feeble, and there is no helper.

¹³And they cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distresses He saveth them.

¹⁴He bringeth them out from the dark place, And death-shade, And their bands He draweth away.

¹⁵They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men.

¹⁶For He hath broken doors of brass, And bars of iron He hath cut.

¹⁷Fools, by means of their transgression, And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.

¹⁸All food doth their soul abominate, And they come nigh unto the gates of death,

¹⁹And cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distresses He saveth them,

²⁰He sendeth His word and healeth them, And delivereth from their destructions.

²¹They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men,

²²And they sacrifice sacrifices of thanksgiving, And recount His works with singing.

²³Those going down to the sea in ships, Doing business in many waters,

²⁴They have seen the works of Jehovah, And His wonders in the deep.

²⁵And He saith, and appointeth a tempest, And it lifteth up its billows,

²⁶They go up to the heavens, they go down to the depths, Their soul in evil is melted.

²⁷They reel to and fro, and move as a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up.

²⁸And they cry to Jehovah in their adversity, And from their distresses He bringeth them out.

²⁹He establisheth a whirlwind to a calm, And hushed are their billows.

³⁰And they rejoice because they are quiet, And He leadeth them to the haven of their desire.

³¹They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men,

³²And they exalt Him in the assembly of the people, And in the seat of the elders praise Him.

³³He maketh rivers become a wilderness, And fountains of waters become dry land.

³⁴A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

³⁵He maketh a wilderness become a pool of water, And a dry land become fountains of waters.

³⁶And He causeth the hungry to dwell there, And they prepare a city of habitation.

³⁷And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, And they make fruits of increase.

³⁸And He blesseth them, and they multiply exceedingly, And their cattle He doth not diminish.

³⁹And they are diminished, and bow down, By restraint, evil, and sorrow.

⁴⁰He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy -- no way.

⁴¹And setteth on high the needy from affliction, And placeth families as a flock.

⁴²The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth.

⁴³Who is wise, and observeth these? They understand the kind acts of Jehovah!