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Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.
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Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.
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Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
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Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
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Remember his marvelous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
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you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
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He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
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He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
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the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
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and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance,”
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when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
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They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
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He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
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“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
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He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
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He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
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They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
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until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true.
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The king sent and freed him, even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
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He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions,
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to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.
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Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.
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He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
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He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
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He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
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They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
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He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
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He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.
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Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.
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He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.
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He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.
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He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.
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He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number.
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They ate up every plant in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.
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He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.
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He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
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Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.
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He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.
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They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
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He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
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For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
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He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing.
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He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
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that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
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