Book of Psalms, No. 105

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Psalms 105 NWT - New World Translation

No. 105 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)

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1. ¶ GIVE thanks to Jehovah, call upon his name,¹
     Make known among the peoples his dealings.²
2. ¶ Sing to him, make melody to him,³
     Concern yourselves with all his wonderful works.⁴
3. ¶ Make YOUR boast in his holy name.⁵
     Let the heart of those seeking Jehovah rejoice.⁶
4. ¶ Search for Jehovah and his strength.⁷
     Seek his face constantly.⁸
5. ¶ Remember his wonderful works that he has performed,⁹
     His miracles and the judicial decisions of his mouth,¹⁰
6. ¶ O YOU seed of Abraham his servant,¹¹
     YOU sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.¹²
7. ¶ He is Jehovah our God.¹³
     His judicial decisions are in all the earth.¹⁴
8. ¶ He has remembered his covenant even to time indefinite,¹⁵
     The word that he commanded, to a thousand generations,¹⁶
9. ¶ Which [covenant] he concluded^[a] with Abraham,¹⁷
     And his sworn statement to Isaac,¹⁸
10. ¶ And which [statement]^[b] he kept standing as a regulation even to Jacob,
      As an indefinitely lasting covenant even to Israel,¹⁹
11. ¶ Saying: “To you I shall give the land of Caʹnaan²⁰
      As the allotment of YOUR inheritance.”²¹
12. ¶ [This was] when they^[c] happened to be few in number,²²
      Yes, very few, and alien residents in it.²³
13. ¶ And they kept walking about from nation to nation,²⁴
      From one kingdom to another people.²⁵
14. ¶ He did not allow any human^[d] to defraud them,²⁶
      But on their account he reproved kings,²⁷
15. ¶ [Saying:] “Do not YOU men touch my anointed ones,^[e]28
      And to my prophets do nothing bad.”²⁹
16. ¶ And he proceeded to call for a famine upon the land;³⁰
      He broke every rod around which ring-shaped loaves were suspended.^[f]31
17. ¶ He sent ahead of them a man^[g]
      Who was sold to be a slave, Joseph.³²
18. ¶ With fetters they afflicted his feet,³³
      Into irons his soul came;³⁴
19. ¶ Until the time that his word^[h] came,³⁵
      The saying^[i] of Jehovah itself refined him.³⁶
20. ¶ The king sent that he might release him,³⁷
      The ruler of the peoples, that he might let him loose.
21. ¶ He set him as master to his household³⁸
      And as ruler over all his property,³⁹
22. ¶ To bind his princes agreeably to his soul^[j]40
      And that he might teach wisdom to even his elderly men.⁴¹
23. ¶ And Israel proceeded to come into Egypt,⁴²
      And Jacob himself resided as an alien in the land of Ham.⁴³
24. ¶ And he kept making his people very fruitful,⁴⁴
      And gradually made them mightier than their adversaries.⁴⁵
25. ¶ He let their heart change to hate his people,⁴⁶
      To behave cunningly against his servants.⁴⁷
26. ¶ He sent Moses his servant,⁴⁸
      Aaron whom he had chosen.⁴⁹
27. ¶ They^[k] set among them the matters of his signs,⁵⁰
      And the miracles in the land of Ham.⁵¹
28. ¶ He sent darkness and so made it dark;⁵²
      And they did not rebel against his words.⁵³
29. ¶ He changed their waters into blood,⁵⁴
      And proceeded to put their fish to death.⁵⁵
30. ¶ Their land swarmed with frogs,⁵⁶
      In the interior rooms of their kings.
31. ¶ He said that the gadflies should come in,⁵⁷
      Gnats in all their territories.⁵⁸
32. ¶ He made their downpours hail,⁵⁹
      A flaming fire on their land.⁶⁰
33. ¶ And he proceeded to strike their vines and their fig trees
      And to break the trees of their territory.⁶¹
34. ¶ He said that the locusts should come in,⁶²
      And a species of locust,^[l] even without number.⁶³
35. ¶ And they went eating all the vegetation in their land;⁶⁴
      They also went eating the fruitage of their ground.
36. ¶ And he proceeded to strike down every firstborn in their land,⁶⁵
      The beginning of all their generative power.⁶⁶
37. ¶ And he began to bring them out with silver and gold;⁶⁷
      And among his tribes there was no one stumbling along.
38. ¶ Egypt rejoiced when they went out,
      For the dread of them had fallen upon them.⁶⁸
39. ¶ He spread out a cloud for a screen,⁶⁹
      And fire to give light by night.⁷⁰
40. ¶ They^[m] asked, and he proceeded to bring quails,⁷¹
      And with bread from heaven he kept satisfying them.⁷²
41. ¶ He opened a rock, and waters began to flow out;⁷³
      These went through the waterless regions as a river.⁷⁴
42. ¶ For he remembered his holy word^[n] with Abraham his servant.⁷⁵
43. ¶ So he brought out his people with exultation,⁷⁶
      His chosen ones even with a joyful cry.⁷⁷
44. ¶ And gradually he gave them the lands of the nations,⁷⁸
      And they kept taking possession of the product of the hard work of national groups,⁷⁹
45. ¶ To the end that they might keep his regulations⁸⁰
      And observe his own laws.⁸¹
      Praise Jah, YOU people!⁸²

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FOOTNOTES

1. ^ Lit., “cut.”
2. ^ “Which [statement].” Heb., ha, a pronominal suffix to the fem. verb, referring to the fem. expression “sworn statement” in vs 9.
3. ^ “They,” MLXXVg; TSy, many Heb. mss and 1Ch 16:19, “you,” pl.
4. ^ Or, “earthling man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
5. ^ “My anointed ones.” Heb., vim·shi·chaiʹ, pl.; Gr., khri·stonʹ; Syr., lam·shi·chai, pl.; Lat., chriʹstos.
6. ^ Lit., “every rod of bread.”
7. ^ “Man.” Heb., ʼish.
8. ^ “His word.” Or, “the word of One.” Heb., dheva·rohʹ.
9. ^ “The saying of.” Heb., ʼim·rathʹ.
10. ^ “Agreeably to his soul.” Lit., “in (by) his soul.” Heb., benaph·shohʹ.
11. ^ “They,” MT; LXXSyVg, “He.”
12. ^ “A species of locust.” Or, “the creeping, unwinged locust.” See Joe 1:4 ftn.
13. ^ “They,” TLXXSyVg; M, “He,” collectively.
14. ^ Or, “promise.” Compare vs 8.

REFERENCES

1. ^ 1Ch 16:8; Ps 136:1; Is 12:4; Jl 2:32; Ro 10:13
2. ^ Ps 89:1; 96:3; 145:12
3. ^ Jg 5:3; 1Ch 16:9; Ps 47:6; Eph 5:19
4. ^ Ps 77:12; 78:4; 119:27
5. ^ 1Ch 16:10; Je 9:24; 1Co 1:31
6. ^ Ps 119:2; Pp 4:4
7. ^ Am 5:4; Zp 2:3
8. ^ 1Ch 16:11; Ps 27:8
9. ^ De 7:18; Ps 77:11
10. ^ De 7:19; Ps 119:13
11. ^ Ex 3:6; Is 41:8; Mt 3:9; 2Co 11:22
12. ^ Ex 19:5
13. ^ Ex 20:2; De 29:13; Jos 24:24; Ps 100:3
14. ^ Is 26:9; Re 15:4
15. ^ 1Ch 16:15; Ne 1:5; Da 9:4; Lu 1:72
16. ^ De 7:9
17. ^ Ge 17:2; 22:17; 26:3; Ne 9:8; Lu 1:73
18. ^ Heb 6:17
19. ^ Ge 17:7; 1Ch 16:17
20. ^ Ge 12:7; 13:15; 15:18; 26:3; 28:13
21. ^ Ps 78:55
22. ^ Ge 34:30; Is 51:2
23. ^ Ge 17:8; 23:4; Ac 7:5; Heb 11:9
24. ^ Ge 20:1; 46:6
25. ^ 1Ch 16:20
26. ^ Ge 31:42; Jb 1:10
27. ^ Ge 12:17; 20:3
28. ^ Zc 2:8
29. ^ Ge 26:11; 1Ch 16:22
30. ^ Ge 41:30, 54; 42:5
31. ^ Le 26:26; Is 3:1; Eze 4:16; Ac 7:11
32. ^ Ge 37:28, 36; 45:5; 50:20; Ac 7:9
33. ^ Ge 39:20
34. ^ Ps 107:10
35. ^ Ac 7:10
36. ^ Ps 17:3; 26:2; 66:10
37. ^ Ge 41:14
38. ^ Ge 41:40; 1Sa 2:8; Jb 36:7; Da 2:48
39. ^ Ge 41:48; 45:8
40. ^ Ps 113:8
41. ^ Ge 41:33, 38; Is 19:11
42. ^ Ge 46:4, 6; Jos 24:4; Ac 7:15
43. ^ Ps 78:51; 106:22
44. ^ Ge 46:3; Ex 1:7; De 26:5; Ac 7:17
45. ^ Ex 1:9
46. ^ Ex 10:1; Ro 9:18
47. ^ Ex 1:10; Ac 7:19
48. ^ Ex 3:10; 4:12; 6:11; Ps 77:20; Ac 7:34
49. ^ Ex 4:14; 7:1; 28:1; Nu 17:5; 1Sa 12:6
50. ^ De 4:34; Ne 9:10; Ps 78:43; Je 32:21
51. ^ Ps 106:22
52. ^ Ex 10:22
53. ^ Ps 99:7
54. ^ Ex 7:20; Ps 78:44
55. ^ Ex 7:21
56. ^ Ex 8:6; Ps 78:45
57. ^ Ex 8:24
58. ^ Ex 8:17
59. ^ Ex 9:23; Jb 38:23; Ps 78:47
60. ^ Ps 78:48
61. ^ Ex 9:25
62. ^ Ex 10:13; De 28:38; Ps 78:46
63. ^ Ex 10:14
64. ^ Ex 10:15
65. ^ Ex 12:29; Ps 78:51; 135:8
66. ^ Ge 49:3
67. ^ Ge 15:14; Ex 3:22; 12:35
68. ^ Ex 11:7; 12:33
69. ^ Ex 14:20
70. ^ Ex 13:21; Nu 9:15; Ne 9:12; Ps 78:14
71. ^ Ex 16:13; Nu 11:32; Ps 78:27
72. ^ Ex 16:15; Ps 78:24
73. ^ Ex 17:6; 1Co 10:4
74. ^ Ps 78:16; Is 48:21
75. ^ Ge 12:7; 15:14; Ex 2:24; De 9:5; Lu 1:72
76. ^ Nu 33:3; Ac 13:17
77. ^ Ps 106:12; Is 51:10
78. ^ De 6:10; Jos 11:23; 21:43; Ne 9:22; Ps 78:55; 135:12; Ac 7:45; 13:19
79. ^ De 6:10; Jos 5:11; Ps 44:2
80. ^ De 4:40; 6:1
81. ^ Ps 19:7
82. ^ Ps 150:1; Re 19:6

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