Psalm 105

Remember His Wonderful Works

This psalm is a history of God's amazing works for Israel. God remembered His promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — He never forgets! He sent Joseph to Egypt, then Moses, and brought His people out with joy. He is the God who keeps every promise.

¹Give thanks to the LORD, call on His name; make known among the nations what He has done.
²Sing to Him, sing praise to Him; tell of all His wonderful acts.
³Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
⁴Look to the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
⁵Remember the wonders He has done, His miracles, and the judgments He pronounced,
⁶you His servants, the descendants of Abraham, His chosen ones, the children of Jacob.
⁷He is the LORD our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
⁸He remembers His covenant forever, the promise He made, for a thousand generations,
⁹the covenant He made with Abraham, the oath He swore to Isaac.
¹⁰He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
¹¹"To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit."
¹²When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,
¹³they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
¹⁴He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake He rebuked kings:
¹⁵"Do not touch My anointed ones; do My prophets no harm."
¹⁶He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food;
¹⁷and He sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a slave.
¹⁸They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,
¹⁹till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the LORD proved him true.
²⁰The king sent and released him, the ruler of peoples set him free.
²¹He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed,
²²to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.
²³Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham.
²⁴The LORD made His people very fruitful; He made them too numerous for 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 signs among them, His wonders in the land of Ham.
²⁸He sent darkness and made the land dark— for had they not rebelled against His words?
²⁹He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die.
³⁰Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.
³¹He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.
³²He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land;
³³He struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.
³⁴He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number;
³⁵they ate up every green thing in their land, ate up the produce of their soil.
³⁶Then He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood.
³⁷He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes no one faltered.
³⁸Egypt was glad when they left, because dread of Israel had fallen on them.
³⁹He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night.
⁴⁰They asked, and He brought them quail; He fed them well with the bread of heaven.
⁴¹He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
⁴²For He remembered His holy promise given to His servant Abraham.
⁴³He brought out His people with rejoicing, His chosen ones with shouts of joy;
⁴⁴He gave them the lands of the nations, and they fell heir to what others had toiled for—
⁴⁵that they might keep His precepts and observe His laws. Praise the LORD.

Scripture from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB)