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¹Give thanks to the LORD, proclaim his greatness;

tell the nations what he has done.

²Sing praise to the LORD;

tell of the wonderful things he has done.

³Be glad that we belong to him;

let all who worship him rejoice.

⁴Go to the LORD for help;

and worship him continually.

^5-6You descendants of Abraham, his servant;

you descendants of Jacob, the man he chose:

remember the miracles that God performed

and the judgements that he gave.

⁷The LORD is our God;

his commands are for all the world.

⁸He will keep his covenant for ever,

his promises for a thousand generations.

⁹He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham

and his promise to Isaac.

¹⁰The LORD made a covenant with Jacob,

one that will last for ever.

¹¹“I will give you the land of Canaan,” he said.

“It will be your own possession.”

¹²God's people were few in number,

strangers in the land of Canaan.

¹³They wandered from country to country,

from one kingdom to another.

¹⁴But 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.”

¹⁶The LORD sent famine to their country

and took away all their food.

¹⁷But he sent a man ahead of them,

Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.

¹⁸His feet were kept in chains,

and an iron collar was round his neck,

¹⁹until what he had predicted came true.

The word of the LORD proved him right.

²⁰Then the king of Egypt had him released;

the ruler of nations set him free.

²¹He put him in charge of his government

and made him ruler over all the land,

²²with power over the king's officials

and authority to instruct his advisers.

²³Then Jacob went to Egypt

and settled in that country.

²⁴The LORD gave many children to his people

and made them stronger than their enemies.

²⁵He made the Egyptians hate his people

and treat his servants with deceit.

²⁶Then he sent his servant Moses,

and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

²⁷They did God's mighty acts

and performed miracles in Egypt.

²⁸God sent darkness on the country,

but the Egyptians did not obey his command.

²⁹He turned their rivers into blood

and killed all their fish.

³⁰Their country was overrun with frogs,

even the palace was filled with them.

³¹God commanded, and flies and gnats

swarmed throughout the whole country.

³²He sent hail and lightning on their land

instead of rain;

³³he destroyed their grapevines and fig trees

and broke down all the trees.

³⁴He commanded, and the locusts came,

countless millions of them;

³⁵they ate all the plants in the land;

they ate all the crops.

³⁶He killed the firstborn sons

of all the families of Egypt.

³⁷Then he led the Israelites out;

they carried silver and gold,

and all of them were healthy and strong.

³⁸The Egyptians were afraid of them

and were glad when they left.

³⁹God put a cloud over his people

and a fire at night to give them light.

⁴⁰They asked, and he sent quails;

he gave them food from heaven to satisfy them.

⁴¹He opened a rock, and water gushed out,

flowing through the desert like a river.

⁴²He remembered his sacred promise

to Abraham his servant.

⁴³So he led his chosen people out,

and they sang and shouted for joy.

⁴⁴He gave them the lands of other peoples

and let them take over their fields,

⁴⁵so that his people would obey his laws

and keep all his commands.

Praise the LORD!