Book of Common Prayer

⁵ Remember His marvelous works that He has done;
    His wonders and the judgments from His mouth,
⁶ O offspring of Abraham, His servant,
    O children of Jacob, His chosen ones.
⁷ He is the Lord our God;
    His judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ He remembers His covenant forever,
    the word that He commanded, to a thousand generations,
⁹ that covenant He made with Abraham,
    and His oath to Isaac,
¹⁰ and confirmed to Jacob as a decree,
    and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
¹¹ saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
    as the portion of your inheritance.”

¹² When they were but a few people in number,
    indeed, very few, and strangers in it,
¹³ when they went from one nation to another,
    from one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴ He did not permit anyone to do them wrong;
    indeed, He reproved kings on their behalf,
¹⁵ saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones,
    and do no harm to my prophets.”

¹⁶ Moreover He called for a famine upon the land;
    He broke the whole supply of bread.
¹⁷ He sent a man before them,
    Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
¹⁸ They hurt his feet with fetters;
    his neck was put in an iron collar.
¹⁹ Until the time that his word came to pass,
    the word of the Lord tested him.
²⁰ The king sent and released him;
    the ruler of the people let him go free.
²¹ He made Joseph lord of his house
    and ruler of all his possessions,
²² to imprison his princes at Joseph’s pleasure
    and to teach his elders wisdom.

²³ Then Israel came into Egypt,
    and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
²⁴ The Lord increased His people greatly
    and made them stronger than their enemies.
²⁵ He turned their hearts to hate His people,
    to deal cleverly with His servants.
²⁶ He sent Moses, His servant,
    and Aaron whom He had chosen.
²⁷ They showed His signs among them
    and wonders in the land of Ham.
²⁸ He sent darkness and made the land dark,
    and Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His word.
²⁹ He turned their waters into blood
    and caused their fish to die.
³⁰ Their land brought forth frogs in abundance,
    even in the chambers of their kings.
³¹ He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
    and gnats in all their country.
³² He gave them hail for rain
    and flaming lightning in their land.
³³ He struck their vines and their fig trees
    and shattered the trees of their country.
³⁴ He spoke, and the locusts came,
    and caterpillars without number,
³⁵ that devoured all the vegetation in their land,
    and ate all the fruit of their ground.
³⁶ He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
    the first fruits of all their strength.
³⁷ Then He brought them out with silver and gold,
    and no one among their tribes faltered.
³⁸ Egypt was glad when they left,
    for the fear of Israel fell upon them.

³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering,
    and fire to give light in the night.
⁴⁰ The people asked, and He brought quail,
    and satisfied them with abundant bread of heaven.
⁴¹ He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out;
    they ran in the desert like a river.

⁴² For he recalled His holy promise
    to Abraham His servant.
⁴³ He brought forth His people with joy,
    and His chosen ones with gladness,
⁴⁴ and gave them the lands of the nations,
    and they took possession of the fruitful labor of the people,
⁴⁵ that they might observe His statutes
    and keep His laws.

Praise the Lord!