Psalms 105

Bishops(i) 1 Confesse you [it] vnto God, call vppon his name: cause the people to vnderstande his deuises 2 Sing vnto hym, sing psalmes vnto him: talke you of all his wonderous workes 3 Glary ye in his holy name: let the heart of them reioyce that do seeke God 4 Seeke God and his strength: seeke his face euermore 5 Remember the meruaylous workes that he hath done: his wonders, and the iudgementes of his mouth 6 (105:6a) O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt, ye his chosen chyldren of Iacob 7 (105:6b) he is God our Lord, his iudgementes are in all the earth 8 (105:7a) He hath ben mindfull alwayes of his couenaunt (for he promised a worde to a thousande generations: 9 (105:7b) euen of his couenaunt that he made with Abraham, and of his othe vnto Isaac 10 (105:8) And he appointed the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt 11 (105:9) Saying, vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritaunce 12 (105:10a) When they were a fewe men in number, and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it 13 (105:10b) and when they went from one nation to another, from one kingdome to another people 14 (105:11) He suffred no man to do them wrong: yea he reproued euen kynges for their sakes 15 (105:12) Touche not mine annoynted: and triumph not ouer my prophetes 16 (105:13) Moreouer he called for a famine vpon the lande: and he made all maner of foode to fayle 17 (105:14) But he had sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was solde to be a bonde seruaunt 18 (105:15) Whose feete they dyd hurt in the stockes: the iron entred into his soule 19 (105:16) Vntill the tyme came that his cause [was knowen:] the worde of the Lorde tryed hym 20 (105:17) The king sent and caused hym to be let go: yea the prince of the people opened a way foorth for hym 21 (105:18) He made him Lorde of his house: and ruler of all his substaunce 22 (105:19) That he might enfourme his princes according to his minde: and teache his senatours wysdome 23 (105:20) Israel also came into Egypt: & Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Cham 24 (105:21) And he encreased his people exceedinglye: and made them stronger then their enemies 25 (105:22) Whose heart so turned that they hated his people: and dealt subtilly with his seruauntes 26 (105:23a) [Then] he sent Moyses his seruaunt, and Aaron whom he had chosen 27 (105:23b) they did their message, workyng his signes among them, and wonders in the lande of Cham 28 (105:24) He sent darknes, & it was darke: and they went not from his wordes 29 (105:25) He turned their waters into blood: and slue their fishe 30 (105:26) Their lande brought foorth frogges: yea euen in their kinges chaumbers 31 (105:27) He spake the worde, and there came a swarme of all maner of flyes: [and] of lyce in all their quarters 32 (105:28) He gaue them haylestones for rayne: [and] flambes of fire in their lande 33 (105:29) He smote their vines also & figge trees: and he destroyed the trees that were in their coastes 34 (105:30) He spake the worde, and the grashoppers came: & caterpillers innumerable 35 (105:31) And they did eate vp all the grasse in their lande: and deuoured the fruite of their grounde 36 (105:32) He smote al the first borne in their land: euen the first fruites of all their concupiscence 37 (105:33) He also brought them foorth with siluer and golde: there was not one feeble person in their tribes 38 (105:34) Egypt was glad at their departing: for they were smytten with dread of them 39 (105:35) He spred out a cloude to be a couering: and fire to geue light in the night season 40 (105:36) The [people] required and he brought quayles: and he filled them with the bread of heauen 41 (105:37) He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out: so that streames ranne in drye places 42 (105:38) For he remembred his holy worde: [spoken] vnto Abraham his seruaunt 43 (105:39) And he brought foorth his people with gladnes: [and] his chosen with a ioyfull noyse 44 (105:40) And he gaue them the landes of the Heathen, and they toke to inheritaunce the labours of the people 45 (105:41) To the intent that they shoulde kepe his statutes: and obserue his lawes. Prayse ye the Lorde