Psalm 105:16-45

Amplified Bible

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And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He ^[a]cut off every source of bread.^(A)
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He sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.^(B)
18 
His feet they hurt with shackles;
^[b]He was put in chains of iron,
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Until the time that his word [of prophecy regarding his brothers] came true,
The word of the Lord tested and refined him.
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The king sent and released him,
The ruler of the peoples [of Egypt], and set him free.
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He made Joseph lord of his house
And ruler of all his possessions,^(C)
22 
To imprison his princes at his will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.
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Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.^(D)
24 
There the Lord greatly increased [the number of] His people,
And made them more powerful than their enemies.

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He turned the heart [of the Egyptians] to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.
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He sent Moses His servant,
And Aaron, whom He had chosen.
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They exhibited His wondrous signs among them,
Great miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).
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He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;
And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.^(E)
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He turned Egypt’s waters into blood
And caused their fish to die.^(F)
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Their land swarmed with frogs,
Even in the chambers of their kings.^(G)
31 
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
And gnats in all their territory.^(H)
32 
He gave them hail for rain,
With flaming fire in their land.^(I)
33 
He struck their vines also and their fig trees,
And shattered the [ice-laden] trees of their territory.^(J)
34 
He spoke, and the [migratory] locusts came,
And the young locusts, even without number,^(K)
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And ate up all the vegetation in their land,
And devoured the fruit of their ground.
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He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,
The first fruits and chief substance of all their strength.^(L)

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He brought the sons of Israel out [of Egypt] with silver and gold,
And among their tribes there was not one who stumbled.^(M)
38 
Egypt was glad when they departed,
For the dread and fear of them had fallen on the Egyptians.^(N)
39 
The Lord spread a cloud as a covering [by day],
And a fire to illumine the night.^(O)
40 
The Israelites asked, and He brought quail,
And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.^(P)
41 
He opened the rock and water flowed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river.^(Q)
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For He remembered His holy word
To Abraham His servant;^(R)
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He brought out His people with joy,
And His chosen ones with a joyful shout,
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He gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan],
So that they would possess the fruits of those peoples’ labor,^(S)
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So that they might observe His precepts
And keep His laws [obediently accepting and honoring and valuing them].
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)