Give thanks to God
call on His name;
To men His deeds make known.
Sing ye to Him
sing psalms; proclaim
His wondrous works each one.
sing ye to Him
Sing to Him with a psalm;
Sing psalms to Him.
See that ye in His holy name
To glory do accord;
And let the heart of every one
Rejoice that seeks the Lord.
The Lord Almighty
and His strength
With steadfast hearts seek ye:
His blessed and His gracious face
Seek ye continually.
Think on the works that He hath done
Which admiration breed;
His wonders
and the judgments all
Which from His mouth proceed;
O ye that are of Abr’ham’s race
His servant well approv’n;
And ye that Jacob’s children are
Whom He chose for His own.
Because He
and He only
is
The mighty Lord our God;
And His most righteous judgments are
In all the earth abroad.
His covenant He remembered hath
That it may ever stand:
To thousand generations
The word He did command.
Which covenant He firmly made
With faithful Abraham
And unto Isaac
by His oath
He did renew the same:
And unto Jacob
for a law
He made it firm and sure
A covenant to Israel
Which ever should endure.
He said
I’ll give Canaan’s land
For heritage to you;
While they were strangers there
and few
In number very few:
While yet they went from land to land
Without a sure abode;
And while through sundry kingdoms they
Did wander far abroad;
Yet
notwithstanding suffered He
No man to do them wrong:
Yea
for their sakes
He did reprove
Kings
who were great and strong.
Thus did He say
Touch ye not those
That Mine anointed be
Nor do the prophets any harm
That do pertain to Me.
He called for famine on the land
He brake the staff of bread:
But yet He sent a man before
By whom they should be fed;
Ev’n Joseph
whom unnaturally
Sell for a slave did they;
Whose feet with fetters they did hurt
And He in irons lay;
Until the time that His word came
To give him liberty;
The word and purpose of the Lord
Did him in prison try.
Then sent the king
and did command
That he enlarged should be:
He that the people’s ruler was
Did send to set him free.
A lord to rule his family
He raised him
as most fit;
To him of all that He possessed
He did the charge commit:
That he might at his pleasure bind
The princes of the land;
And he might teach his senators
Wisdom to understand.
The people then of Israel
Down into Egypt came;
And Jacob also sojourned
Within the land of Ham.
And He did greatly by His pow’r
Increase His people there;
And stronger than their enemies
They by His blessing were.
Their heart he turned to envy
His folk maliciously
With those that His own servants were
To deal in subtlety.
His servant Moses He did send
Aaron His chosen one.
By these His signs and wonders great
In Ham’s land were made known.
Darkness He sent
and made it dark;
His word they did obey.
He turned their waters into blood
And He their fish did slay.
The land in plenty brought forth frogs
In chambers of their kings.
His word all sorts of flies and lice
In all their borders brings.
He hail for rain
and flaming fire
Into their land He sent:
And He their vines and fig-trees smote:
Trees of their coasts He rent.
He spake
and caterpillars came
Locusts did much abound;
Which in their land all herbs consumed
And all fruits of their ground.
He smote all first-born in their land
Chief of their strength each one.
With gold and silver brought them forth
Weak in their tribes were none.
Egypt was glad when forth they went
Their fear on them did light.
He spread a cloud for covering
And fire to shine by night.
They asked
and He brought quails: with bread
Of Heav’n He filled them.
He opened rocks
floods gushed and ran
In deserts like a stream.
For on his holy promise He
And servant Abr’ham
thought.
With joy His people
His elect
With gladness
forth he brought.
And unto them the pleasant lands
He of the heathen gave;
That of the people’s labor they
Inheritance might have.
That they His statutes might observe
According to His word;
And that they might His laws obey.
Give praise unto the Lord.
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