Psalms 105:16-45

16And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt]; He cut off every source of bread.

17He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

18His feet they hurt with shackles; He was put in chains of iron,

19Until the time that his word [of prophecy regarding his brothers] came true, The word of the Lord tested and refined him.

20The king sent and released him, The ruler of the peoples [of Egypt], and set him free.

21He made Joseph lord of his house And ruler of all his possessions,

22To imprison his princes at his will, That he might teach his elders wisdom.

23Israel also came into Egypt; Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

24There the Lord greatly increased [the number of] His people, And made them more powerful than their enemies.

25He turned the heart [of the Egyptians] to hate His people, To deal craftily with His servants.

26He sent Moses His servant, And Aaron, whom He had chosen.

27They exhibited His wondrous signs among them, Great miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).

28He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark; And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.

29He turned Egypt’s waters into blood And caused their fish to die.

30Their land swarmed with frogs, Even in the chambers of their kings.

31He spoke, and there came swarms of flies And gnats in all their territory.

32He gave them hail for rain, With flaming fire in their land.

33He struck their vines also and their fig trees, And shattered the [ice-laden] trees of their territory.

34He spoke, and the [migratory] locusts came, And the young locusts, even without number,

35And ate up all the vegetation in their land, And devoured the fruit of their ground.

36He also struck down all the firstborn in their land, The first fruits and chief substance of all their strength.

37He brought the sons of Israel out [of Egypt] with silver and gold, And among their tribes there was not one who stumbled.

38Egypt was glad when they departed, For the dread and fear of them had fallen on the Egyptians.

39The Lord spread a cloud as a covering [by day], And a fire to illumine the night.

40The Israelites asked, and He brought quail, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

41He opened the rock and water flowed out; It ran in the dry places like a river.

42For He remembered His holy word To Abraham His servant;

43He brought out His people with joy, And His chosen ones with a joyful shout,

44He gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan], So that they would possess the fruits of those peoples’ labor,

45So that they might observe His precepts And keep His laws [obediently accepting and honoring and valuing them]. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)