1   
Give thanks to the Lord, proclaim his greatness;
  tell the nations what he has done.

2   
Sing praise to the Lord;
  tell the wonderful things he has done.

3   
Be glad that we belong to him;
  let all who worship him rejoice.

4   
Go to the Lord for help;
  and worship him continually.

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You descendants of Abraham, his servant;
  you descendants of Jacob, the man he chose:

remember the miracles that God performed
  and the judgments that he gave.

7   
The Lord is our God;
  his commands are for all the world.

8   
He will keep his covenant forever,
  his promises for a thousand generations.

9   
He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham
  and his promise to Isaac. ^note

10   
The Lord made a covenant with Jacob,
  one that will last forever.

11   
“I will give you the land of Canaan,” he said.
  “It will be your own possession.” ^note

12   
God's people were few in number,
  strangers in the land of Canaan.

13   
They wandered from country to country,
  from one kingdom to another.

14   
But God let no one oppress them;
  to protect them, he warned the kings:

15   
“Don't harm my chosen servants;
  do not touch my prophets.” ^note

16   
The Lord sent famine to their country
  and took away all their food. ^note

17   
But he sent a man ahead of them,
  Joseph, who had been sold as a slave. ^note

18   
His feet were kept in chains,
  and an iron collar was around his neck,

19   
  until what he had predicted came true.
The word of the Lord proved him right. ^note

20   
Then the king of Egypt had him released;
  the ruler of nations set him free. ^note

21   
He put him in charge of his government
  and made him ruler over all the land, ^note

22   
  with power over the king's officials
  and authority to instruct his advisers.

23   
Then Jacob went to Egypt
  and settled in that country. ^note

24   
The Lord gave many children to his people
  and made them stronger than their enemies.

25   
He made the Egyptians hate his people
  and treat his servants with deceit. ^note

26   
Then he sent his servant Moses,
  and Aaron, whom he had chosen. ^note

27   
They did God's mighty acts
  and performed miracles in Egypt.

28   
God sent darkness on the country,
  but the Egyptians did not obey ^note his command. ^note

29   
He turned their rivers into blood
  and killed all their fish. ^note

30   
Their country was overrun with frogs;
  even the palace was filled with them. ^note

31   
God commanded, and flies and gnats
  swarmed throughout the whole country. ^note

32   
He sent hail and lightning on their land
  instead of rain;

33   
he destroyed their grapevines and fig trees
  and broke down all the trees. ^note

34   
He commanded, and the locusts came,
  countless millions of them;

35   
they ate all the plants in the land;

  they ate all the crops. ^note

36   
He killed the first-born sons
  of all the families of Egypt. ^note

37   
Then he led the Israelites out;
  they carried silver and gold,
  and all of them were healthy and strong.

38   
The Egyptians were afraid of them
  and were glad when they left. ^note

39   
God put a cloud over his people
  and a fire at night to give them light. ^note

40   
They ^note asked, and he sent quails;
  he gave them food from heaven to satisfy them. ^note

41   
He opened a rock, and water gushed out,
  flowing through the desert like a river. ^note

42   
He remembered his sacred promise
  to Abraham his servant.

43   
So he led his chosen people out,
  and they sang and shouted for joy.

44   
He gave them the lands of other peoples
  and let them take over their fields, ^note

45   
so that his people would obey his laws
  and keep all his commands.

45   
Praise the Lord!

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