Psalms 104

¹Alleluia. Confess ye to our Lord, and invocate his name: shew forth his works among the Gentiles.

²Chant to him, and sing to him: tell ye all his marvelous works.

³Praise ye him in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek our Lord.

⁴Seek ye our Lord, and be confirmed: seek his face always.

⁵Remember ye his marvelous works, which he hath done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.

⁶The seed of Abraham his servants: the children of Jacob his elect.

⁷He is the Lord our God: in all the earth are his judgments.

⁸He hath been mindful for ever of his testament; of the word which he commanded unto a thousand generations.

⁹Which he disposed to Abraham: and of his oath to Isaac.

¹⁰And he appointed it to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel for an eternal testament,

¹¹saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the cord of your inheritance.

¹²When they were of small number, very few and sojourners thereof:

¹³And they passed from nation into nation, & from Kingdom to another people.

¹⁴He left not a man to hurt them: and he rebuked kings for their sake:

¹⁵Touch not my anointed, and toward my Prophets be not malignant.

¹⁶And he called a famine upon the land: and he destroyed all the strength of bread.

¹⁷He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold to be a servant.

¹⁸They humbled his feet in fetters, iron passed through his soul,

¹⁹until his word came. The word of our Lord inflamed him:

²⁰the king sent, and loosed him; the Prince of the people, and released him.

²¹He appointed him lord of his house: and Prince of all his possession.

²²That he might instruct his Princes as himself: and might teach his ancients wisdom.

²³And Israel entered into Ægypt, and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

²⁴And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies.

²⁵He turned their heart that they hated his people: and to work guile toward his servants.

²⁶He sent Moyses his servant: Aaron himself whom he chose.

²⁷He did put in them the words of his signs, and of his wonders in the Land of Cham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and obscured: and did not exasperate his words.

²⁹He turned their waters into blood: and killed their fishes.

³⁰Their land brought forth frogs in the inner chambers of their kings.

³¹He said, and the cænomyia came: and the sciniphs in all their coasts.

³²He made their rains hail: fire burning in their land.

³³And he struck their vines, and their fig-trees: and he destroyed the wood of their coasts.

³⁴He said, & the locust came, & the bruchus whereof there was no number.

³⁵And it did eat all the grass in their land: and it did eat all the fruit of their land.

³⁶And he struck every first begotten in their land: the first fruits of all their labour.

³⁷And he brought them forth with gold and silver, and there was not in their tribes a feeble person.

³⁸Ægypt was glad at their departure: because the fear of them lay upon them.

³⁹He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to shine unto them by night.

⁴⁰They made petition, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹He divided the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran in the dry ground.

⁴²Because he was mindful of his holy word, which he had uttered to Abraham his servant.

⁴³And he brought forth his people in exultation, and his elect in joy.

⁴⁴And he gave them the countries of the Nations: and they possessed the labours of peoples:

⁴⁵That they might keep his justifications, and seek after his law.