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| 1 Give ye thanks to Yahweh, Call upon his Name, Make known, among the peoples, his doings; |
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| 2 Sing ye to him, Make ye music to him, Speak ye of all his wonders. |
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| 3 Make your boast in his holy Name, Joyful be the heart of them who are seeking Yahweh. |
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| 4 Search out Yahweh and his strength, Seek diligently his face at all times. |
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| 5 Remember his wonders which he hath done, His portents, and the just decisions of his mouth. |
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| 6 O ye Seed of Abraham–his servants, Sons of Jacob–his chosen ones: |
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| 7 Yahweh himself, is our God, Through all the land, are his just decision. |
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| 8 He hath remembered, unto times age-abiding, his covenant, The word he commanded, to a thousand generations; |
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| 9 Which he solemnised with Abraham, and his oath, to Isaac; |
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| 10 And confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel, as a covenant age-abiding; |
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| 11 Saying, To thee, will I give the land of Canaan, As your inherited portion; |
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| 12 While as yet they were men easily counted,–A very few, and sojourners therein; |
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| 13 And they wandered from nation to nation, From a kingdom, to another people. |
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| 14 He suffered no son of earth to oppress them, And reproved–for their sakes–[even] kings! |
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| 15 Ye may not touch mine Anointed ones, And, to my Prophets, may ye do no wrong. |
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| 16 Then called he a famine over the land, All the staff of bread, he brake; |
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| 17 He sent before them a man, For a slave, was he sold–[even] Joseph; |
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| 18 They forced, into a fetter, his foot, Into the iron, entered his soul; |
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| 19 Until the time when his word came to pass, Speech of Yahweh, proved him; |
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| 20 The king sent, and set him free, One having dominion over peoples, yet loosed he his bonds; |
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| 21 He appointed him lord to his household, And one having dominion over all he possessed; |
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| 22 That he might bind his rulers as he pleased, And, his elders, he might embue with wisdom. |
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| 23 So Israel came into Egypt, And, Jacob, sojourned in the land of Ham; |
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| 24 And he made his people exceeding fruitful,–And caused them to become stronger than their adversaries. |
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| 25 He let them turn their heart–To hate his people, To deal treacherously with his servants; |
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| 26 He sent Moses his servant, Aaron, whom he had chosen. |
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| 27 He set among them his threatening signs, And his wonders, in the land of Ham;
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| 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark, But they rebelled against his words; |
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| 29 He turned their waters into blood, And so caused their fish to die; |
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| 30 Their land swarmed with frogs, In the chambers of their kings! |
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| 31 He spake, and there came in the gad-fly, Gnats, in all their bounds; |
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| 32 He made their showers–hail, A fire flaming throughout their land; |
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| 33 And he smote their vines, and their fig-trees, And brake in pieces the trees of their bounds; |
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| 34 He spake–then came the swarming locust,–The devouring locust, and that without number; |
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| 35 And devoured all the herbage in their land, And devoured the fruit of their ground. |
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| 36 Then smote he every firstborn in their land, The beginning of all their strength; |
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| 37 Thus brought he them forth, with silver and gold, Nor was there, throughout his tribes, one that faltered; |
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| 38 Egypt rejoiced when they went out, For the dread of them had fallen upon them. |
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| 39 He spread out a cloud as a covering, And fire, to give light by night, |
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| 40 They asked, and he brought in the quail,–And, with the bread of the heavens, he satisfied them; |
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| 41 He opened the rock, and there gushed forth waters, They flowed along, through parched places, as a river; |
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| 42 For he remembered his holy word, With Abraham his servant. |
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| 43 Thus brought he forth his people with gladness,–With shouts of triumph, his chosen ones; |
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| 44 And gave them, the lands of the nations, And, of the toil of the peoples, took they possession: |
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| 45 In order that they might observe his statutes, And, over his laws, might keep watch, Praise ye Yah. |
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