Thomson(i)
1 An Alleluia, or alternate Song of Precise to the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord and invoke his name: proclaim his works among the nations.
2 Sing to him and sing with instrumental musick; relate all his wonderous works.
3 Sing praises to his holy name. Let the heart of them, who seek the Lord, be glad.
4 Seek the Lord and be confirmed in strength; seek his face continually.
5 Remember his wonders which he hath done; his miracles and the judgments of his mouth.
6 ye seed of Abraham, his servants; ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones;
7 he is the Lord, our God, in all this land are his judgments.
8 He remembered forever his covenant; a word which he gave in charge for a thousand generations:
9 the covenant which he made with Abraham, and that oath of his to Isaak,
10 which he confirmed to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant;
11 saying, To thee I will give the land of Chanaan to be the lot of your inheritance.
12 When they were few in number; of little account and sojourners therein;
13 when they passed through from nation to nation; from one kingdom to another people;
14 he suffered no man to injure them; he reproved kings for their sake,
15 "touch not mine anointed ones, and to my prophets do no harm."
16 When he called for a famine on the land; broke all the stay of bread,
17 he had sent before them a man, Joseph was sold for a servant.
18 They had humbled his feet with fetters, his life was spent in irons;
19 until his word came to pass; till the oracle of the Lord tried him.
20 The king had sent and loosed him; the chief of peoples had set him at liberty;
21 had appointed him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions;
22 that he like himself might instruct princes, and teach his senators wisdom:
23 then Israel went down to Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Cham.
24 When he had encreased his people to a great degree, and made them stronger than their enemies;
25 and had turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal deceitfully with his servants;
26 he sent forth Moses his servant; Aaron whom he had chosen:
27 to them he committed the words of his signs; of his wonders in the land of Cham.
28 He sent forth darkness and it was dark. When they made his words bitter,
29 he turned their waters into blood, and made a slaughter of their fishes;
30 their land swarmed with frogs, in the inmost chambers of their kings.
31 He spake and the dog fly came, and stinging gnats in all their borders;
32 he made his showers, hail, flaming fire in all their land;
33 he smote their vines and their fig trees, and broke every tree of their border.
34 He spake, and the grasshopper came, and the brouchus locust in swarms innumerable,
35 and devoured every herb in their country, and ate up the fruit of their land.
36 Then he smote every first born of their land; the first fruits of all their labour;
37 and brought out his people with silver and gold, and there was not a feeble person among their tribes.
38 Egypt rejoiced at their going out, for the dread of these had fallen on them.
39 He spread out a cloud to shelter them, and a fire to illuminate the night for them.
40 They asked, and flocks of quails came; and he satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41 He split a rock and waters gushed out, and rivers ran in dry places.
42 Because he remembered his holy promise; that which he made to Abraham his servant;
43 therefore he brought out his people with joy; even his chosen ones with gladness;
44 and gave them the countries of nations, and they inherited the labours of peoples;
45 that they might keep his rules of rectitude, and that they might diligently seek his law.