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[Alleluia.]
[1] Give thanks to the Lord, and call upon his name; declare his works among the heathen.
[2] Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: tell forth all his wonderful works.
[3] Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice.
[4] Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened; seek his face continually.
[5] Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
[6] ye seed of Abraam, his servants, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
[7] He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
[8] He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generation:
[9] which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and he remembered his oath to Isaac.
[10] And he established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant;
[11] saying To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance:
[12] when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it.
[13] And they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.
[14] He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes:
[15] saying, Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm.
[16] Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole support of bread.
[17] He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave.
[18] They hurt his feet with fetters; his soul passed into iron,
[19] until the time that his cause came on; the word of the Lord tried him as fire.
[20] The king sent and loosed him; even the prince of the people, and let him go free.
[21] He made him Lord over his house, and ruler of all his substance;
[22] to chastise his rulers at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.
[23] Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Cham.
[24] And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.
[25] And he turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.
[26] He sent fort Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.
[27] He established among them his signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.
[28] He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; yet they rebelled against his words.
[29] He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
[30] Their land produced frogs abundantly, in the chambers of their kings.
[31] He spoke, and the dog-fly came, and lice in all their coasts.
[32] He turned their rain into hail, and sent flaming fire in their land.
[33] And he smote their vines and their fig trees; and broke every tree of their coast.
[34] He spoke, and the locust came, and caterpillars innumerable,
[35] and devoured all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of the ground.
[36] He smote also every first-born of their land, the first-fruits of all their labour.
[37] And he brought them out with silver and gold; and there was not a feeble one among their tribes.
[38] Egypt rejoiced at their departing; for the fear of them fell upon them.
[39] He spread out a cloud for a covering to them, and fire to give them light by night.
[40] They asked, and the quail came, and he satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
[41] He clave the rock, and the waters flowed, rivers ran in dry places.
[42] For he remembered his holy word, which he promised to Abraam his servant.
[43] And he brought out his people with exultation, and his chosen with joy;
[44] and gave them the lands of the heathen; and they inherited the labours of the people;
[45] that they might keep his ordinances, and diligently seek his law.
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