Psalms

Chapter 104

The Israelites are exhorted to sing praises to God, ℣.5 for his marvelous benefits towards Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ℣.11 Whose particular family, being then small, went from Chanaan into Ægypt. (℣.17 Whither Joseph by God's providence was carried before) there increased in number was persecuted, ℣.26 delivered by Moyses and Aaron, working many great miracles, ℣.36 protected, and fed in the desert, ℣.44 and finally possessed Chanaan.

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Alleluia. Confess ye to our Lord, and invocate his name: shew forth his works among the Gentiles.
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Chant to him, and sing to him: tell ye all his marvelous works.
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Praise ye him in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek our Lord.
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Seek ye our Lord, and be confirmed: seek his face always.
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Remember ye his marvelous works, which he hath done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.
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The seed of Abraham his servants: the children of Jacob his elect.
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He is the Lord our God: in all the earth are his judgments.
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He hath been mindful for ever of his testament; of the word which he commanded unto a thousand generations.
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Which he disposed to Abraham: and of his oath to Isaac.
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And he appointed it to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel for an eternal testament,
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saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the cord of your inheritance.
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When they were of small number, very few and sojourners thereof:
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And they passed from nation into nation, & from Kingdom to an other people.
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He left not a man to hurt them: and he rebuked kings for their sake:
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Touch not my anointed, and toward my Prophets be not malignant.
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And he called a famine upon the land: and he destroyed all the strength of bread.
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He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold to be a servant.
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They humbled his feet in fetters, iron passed through his soul,
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until his word came. The word of our Lord inflamed him:
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the king sent, and loosed him; the Prince of the people, and released him.
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He appointed him lord of his house: and Prince of all his possession.
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That he might instruct his Princes as himself: and might teach his ancients wisdom.
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And Israel entered into Ægypt, and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.
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And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies.
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He turned their heart that they hated his people: and to work guile toward his servants.
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He sent Moyses his servant: Aaron himself whom he chose.
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He did put in them the words of his signs, and of his wonders in the Land of Cham.
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He sent darkness, and obscured: and did not exasperate his words.
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He turned their waters into blood: and killed their fishes.
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Their land brought forth frogs in the inner chambers of their kings.
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He said, and the caenomyia came: and the sciniphs in all their coasts.
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He made their rains hail: fire burning in their land.
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And he struck their vines, and their fig-trees: and he destroyed the wood of their coasts.
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He said, & the locust came, & the bruchus whereof there was no number.
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And it did eat all the grass in their land: and it did eat all the fruit of their land.
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And he struck every first begotten in their land: the first fruits of all their labour.
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And he brought them forth with gold and silver, and there was not in their tribes a feeble person.
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Ægypt was glad at their departure: because the fear of them lay upon them.
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He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to shine unto them by night.
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They made petition, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.
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He divided the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran in the dry ground.
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Because he was mindful of his holy word, which he had uttered to Abraham his servant.
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And he brought forth his people in exultation, and his elect in joy.
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And he gave them the countries of the Nations: and they possessed the labours of peoples:
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That they might keep his justifications, and seek after his law.