⁷ The Lord is our God;
    his commands are for all the world.
⁸ He will keep his covenant forever,
    his promises for a thousand generations.
^9 (B)He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham
    and his promise to Isaac.
^10 (C)The Lord made a covenant with Jacob,
    one that will last forever.
¹¹ “I will give you the land of Canaan,” he said.
    “It will be your own possession.”

¹² God's people were few in number,
    strangers in the land of Canaan.
¹³ They wandered from country to country,
    from one kingdom to another.
^14 (D)But God let no one oppress them;
    to protect them, he warned the kings:
¹⁵ “Don't harm my chosen servants;
    do not touch my prophets.”

^16 (E)The Lord sent famine to their country
    and took away all their food.
^17 (F)But he sent a man ahead of them,
    Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.
^18 (G)His feet were kept in chains,
    and an iron collar was around his neck,
¹⁹     until what he had predicted came true.
The word of the Lord proved him right.
^20 (H)Then the king of Egypt had him released;
    the ruler of nations set him free.
^21 (I)He put him in charge of his government
    and made him ruler over all the land,
²²     with power over the king's officials
    and authority to instruct his advisers.

^23 (J)Then Jacob went to Egypt
    and settled in that country.
^24 (K)The Lord gave many children to his people
    and made them stronger than their enemies.
²⁵ He made the Egyptians hate his people
    and treat his servants with deceit.

^26 (L)Then he sent his servant Moses,
    and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
²⁷ They did God's mighty acts
    and performed miracles in Egypt.
^28 (M)God sent darkness on the country,
    but the Egyptians did not obey^[a] his command.
^29 (N)He turned their rivers into blood
    and killed all their fish.
^30 (O)Their country was overrun with frogs;
    even the palace was filled with them.
^31 (P)God commanded, and flies and gnats
    swarmed throughout the whole country.
^32 (Q)He sent hail and lightning on their land
    instead of rain;
³³ he destroyed their grapevines and fig trees
    and broke down all the trees.
^34 (R)He commanded, and the locusts came,
    countless millions of them;
³⁵ they ate all the plants in the land;
    they ate all the crops.
^36 (S)He killed the first-born sons
    of all the families of Egypt.

^37 (T)Then he led the Israelites out;
    they carried silver and gold,
    and all of them were healthy and strong.
³⁸ The Egyptians were afraid of them
    and were glad when they left.
^39 (U)God put a cloud over his people
    and a fire at night to give them light.
^40 (V)They^[b] asked, and he sent quails;
    he gave them food from heaven to satisfy them.
^41 (W)He opened a rock, and water gushed out,
    flowing through the desert like a river.
⁴² He remembered his sacred promise
    to Abraham his servant.

⁴³ So he led his chosen people out,
    and they sang and shouted for joy.
^44 (X)He gave them the lands of other peoples
    and let them take over their fields,
⁴⁵ so that his people would obey his laws
    and keep all his commands.

Praise the Lord!