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Give thanks to the
LORD, call on his name;
make known among the nations what he has done.
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Sing to him, sing
praise to him;
tell of all his wonderful acts.
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Glory in his holy
name;
let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
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Look to the LORD and
his strength;
seek his face always.
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Remember the wonders
he has done,
his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,
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O descendants of
Abraham his servant,
O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
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He is the LORD our
God;
his judgments are in all the earth.
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He remembers his
covenant forever,
the word he commanded, for a thousand generations,
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the covenant he made
with Abraham,
the oath he swore to Isaac.
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He confirmed it to
Jacob as a decree,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
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To you I will give
the land of Canaan
as the portion you will inherit.
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When they were but
few in number,
few indeed, and strangers in it,
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they wandered from
nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another.
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He allowed no one to
oppress them;
for their sake he rebuked kings:
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Do not touch my
anointed ones;
do my prophets no harm.
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He called down
famine on the land
and destroyed all their supplies of food;
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and he sent a man
before them
Joseph, sold as a slave.
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They bruised his
feet with shackles,
his neck was put in irons,
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till what he
foretold came to pass,
till the word of the LORD proved him true.
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The king sent and
released him,
the ruler of peoples set him free.
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He made him master
of his household,
ruler over all he possessed,
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to instruct his
princes as he pleased
and teach his elders wisdom.
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Then Israel entered
Egypt;
Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.
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The LORD made his
people very fruitful;
he made them too numerous for their foes,
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whose hearts he
turned to hate his people,
to conspire against his servants.
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He sent Moses his
servant,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
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They performed his
miraculous signs among them,
his wonders in the land of Ham.
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He sent darkness and
made the land dark
for had they not rebelled against his words?
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He turned their
waters into blood,
causing their fish to die.
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Their land teemed
with frogs,
which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.
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He spoke, and there
came swarms of flies,
and gnats throughout their country.
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He turned their rain
into hail,
with lightning throughout their land;
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he struck down their
vines and fig trees
and shattered the trees of their country.
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He spoke, and the
locusts came,
grasshoppers without number;
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they ate up every
green thing in their land,
ate up the produce of their soil.
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Then he struck down
all the firstborn in their land,
the firstfruits of all their manhood.
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He brought out
Israel, laden with silver and gold,
and from among their tribes no one faltered.
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Egypt was glad when
they left,
because dread of Israel had fallen on them.
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He spread out a
cloud as a covering,
and a fire to give light at night.
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They asked, and he
brought them quail
and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
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He opened the rock,
and water gushed out;
like a river it flowed in the desert.
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For he remembered
his holy promise
given to his servant Abraham.
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He brought out his
people with rejoicing,
his chosen ones with shouts of joy;
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he gave them the
lands of the nations,
and they fell heir to what others had toiled for
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that they might keep
his precepts
and observe his laws.
Praise the LORD.
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