Psalm CV

O Give ye thanks unto the Lord,
[Trust ye] and call upon his name
And that all people may them know,
His deeds [do you] to them proclaim.

Sing unto him, to him sing Psalms;
Of all his [wondrous] works talk ye:
And let his great and holy name
Your [joyful] glorying still be.

Let all their hearts that seek the Lord
Be [ever] joyful in his grace:

Seek ye the Lord, and his great strength,
Evermore seek his [pleased] face.

Keep ye in constant memory
The [strange and] great works he hath done,
His wonders, and the judgments which
His mouth to us hath [truly] shewn.

O ye his servant, Abraham's seed,
His [chosen] Israel's Off-spring;

His judgments are in all the earth,
He is the Lord our [God and] King.

He keeps in faithful memory
His Covenant: it shall ever stand,
To thousand generations,
His word [to keep] he did command.

Which Covenant he with Abraham made,
[And he] to Isaac gave his oath:

This Law and endless Covenant
[He un-] to Israel sealed hath.

Saying, I'le give thee Canaan's Land,
Your [lot of] heritage is there;

When they but few, yea, very few
In it, and [utter] strangers were.

When they from land to land did go,
Through [divers] Kingdoms oft remov'd;

He suffer'd none to do them wrong.
But [mighty] Kings for them reprov'd.

Saying to those that sit on Thrones,
Let no [proud or] presumptuous arm
Touch my anointed holy Ones,
Nor do my [sacred] Prophets harm.

He call'd for Famine on the land,
And brake their [vital] staff of bread;

But did before them send a man,
By whom they [after] should be fed.

Joseph was for a servant sold,
His feet with [hurtful] fetters bound;

In Irons laid, till God's Word came,
And [tryed] he was blameless found.

The King then sent and loosed him,
The [People's] Ruler set him free;

He made him Lord of all his house,
And [Ruler] of his Land to be.

To bind his Princes at his will,
[Wisdom] his Senators to teach.

Then Israel into-Egypt came,
And [Jacob] to Ham's Land did reach.

His people he did much increase,
[Made] stronger than [their] enemies;

Whose hearts he turn'd to hate his flock,
[By craft] they did their hurt devise.

He sent his servant Moses then,
And Aaron [chosen] did command:

Among them they his signs did shew,
And [many] wonders in Ham's land.

He darkness sent, and made it dark,
[And] all things [did] his word obey:

He turn'd their waters into blood,
And he [thereby] their fish did slay

Their land in swarms did bring forth frogs,
[Even] in [the] Chambers of their Kings;

His word all sorts of flies and lice
In all their Country [quickly] brings.

For rain he gave them hurtful hail,
And [flaming] fire was in their land;

Their Vines and their Fig-trees he smote,
Their [other] trees brake by his hand.

He spake the word, the Locusts came,
[And] Caterpillars [did] abound;

Herbs of the land they eat up all,
[Devour'd] the fruits of all the ground.

He smote the first-born of the land,
[Till all] their chiefest strength was gone;

With gold and silver brought them forth,
[And] weak in [all] their Tribes were none.

Egypt was glad when they were gone,
[For] their [great] fear did on them light;

For covering he did spread a cloud,
And fire to lead [them all] by night.

The people askt, and he brought Quails,
With bread [of heav'n] he filled them.

Waters gusht from the opened Rocks,
[And ran] in desarts like a stream.

For on his holy promise he,
And [on his] servant Abraham thought;

With joy his people, his Elect
With singing [gladness] forth he brought.

And he (the Lord of all) them gave
The [wicked] heathens fruitful lands;
And they thenceforth inherited
The labour of their [neighbours] hands.

That (hating heathen wickedness)
They might observe his [holy] Word;
And his just statutes might obey:
[All men] give praise unto the Lord.