God takes care of his people
1 Thank the Lord! Make his name famous! Tell people in all the nations what he has done. 2 Sing songs and make music to praise him! Tell people about the miracles that he has done. 3 Boast about his holy name. Everybody who wants to worship the Lord should be very happy! 4 Ask the Lord to help you. Ask him to give you strength. Always try to be near him and worship him. 5 Remember the great things that he has done. Remember his miracles, and the commands that he has spoken. 6 Remember that you are descendants of God's servant, Abraham. You are Jacob's descendants, and God has chosen you to be his people.
7 He is the Lord, our God. He rules the whole earth with justice. 8 He will always remember the covenant that he made with us. He made that promise to continue for ever. 9 That is the promise that he made to Abraham, and that he also made to Isaac. 10 He repeated it to Jacob as a law. It was a covenant with Israel's people that would continue for ever. 11 He promised Jacob, ‘I will give to you the land of Canaan. It will belong to you, and to your descendants.’ 12 At one time, God's people were only a few. They lived in Canaan as strangers. 13 They travelled among different nations and different kingdoms. 14 But the Lord did not let anyone hurt them. He punished kings to keep his people safe. 15 He said, ‘Do not even touch the people that I have chosen to be mine. Do not hurt my prophets.’ 16 The Lord sent a famine to the land of Canaan, so that his people had no food left to eat. 17 But he sent Joseph to Egypt before they went there to get food. Joseph's brothers sold him as a slave. 18 In Egypt the chains on his feet hurt him. He had a heavy piece of iron round his neck. 19 He remained a slave until what he said would happen really happened. Then the Lord showed that Joseph was right. 20 The powerful king of Egypt sent someone to let Joseph go free out of prison. 21 The king made Joseph master of his palace. Joseph took care of everything that belonged to the king. 22 The king gave him authority over his officers. He could teach the king's leaders, so that they would know what to do.
23 Then Jacob's family came into Egypt. They lived as strangers in the land of Ham's descendants. 24 The Lord gave to his people many children. They became more powerful than their enemies. 25 So the Egyptians began to hate God's people. They did cruel things to the Lord's people.
26 The Lord sent his servant Moses to help his people in Egypt. He also chose Aaron to help them. 27 Moses and Aaron did many miracles in Egypt, where Ham's descendants lived. They showed the Lord's great power to the Egyptians. 28 God made all the land become dark. But the Egyptians did not obey God's command. 29 God caused their rivers to become blood, and he killed their fish. 30 Frogs covered all their land. They even went into the bedrooms of the palace! 31 The Lord commanded flies and gnats to cover the whole country. 32 He sent hail with the rain, and there was lightning everywhere. 33 He destroyed their vines and fig trees. He knocked down the trees everywhere in their country. 34 He commanded many locusts to come. There were too many locusts to count! 35 They ate all the plants in their land, and all the crops in their fields. 36 Then the Lord killed all the firstborn sons in Egypt. He killed the oldest son in each family.
37 So the Lord led his people out from Egypt. They took with them valuable silver and gold things. Nobody among the Israelite people was too weak to go. 38 The Egyptians were happy when they went, because they were afraid of the Israelites. 39 The Lord made a cloud to cover them and a fire to give them light at night. 40 When they asked him for food, he gave them quails to eat. He fed them with bread from the sky. 41 He broke a rock, so that water poured out from it. It ran as a river through the dry places.
42 Yes, the Lord remembered the holy promise that he had made to his servant, Abraham. 43 So he led his people out from Egypt, and they were very happy! They were the people that he had chosen for himself, and they shouted with joy! 44 The Lord gave to them the land of other nations. They enjoyed the good things that other people had worked to get. 45 Then God's people could obey his commands and his laws. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! — Psalm 105 | EasyEnglish Bible (EASY) EasyEnglish Bible Copyright © MissionAssist 2019. All rights reserved. Cross References: Genesis 1:21; Genesis 8:1; Genesis 13:15; Genesis 17:7; Genesis 26:11; Genesis 35:5; Genesis 37:28; Genesis 39:21; Genesis 40:15; Genesis 41:14; Genesis 41:30; Exodus 1:7; Exodus 3:10; Exodus 3:21; Exodus 8:16; Exodus 9:23; Exodus 9:25; Exodus 10:12-13 and 14; Exodus 11:5; Exodus 12:33; Exodus 15:1; Numbers 21:17-18; Deuteronomy 7:18; 1 Chronicles 16:13; Nehemiah 9:12; Psalm 27:8; Psalm 33:21; Psalm 78:44; Psalm 78:55; Psalm 99:6; Psalm 104:35; Isaiah 26:9; Isaiah 45:7; Daniel 4:3; Joel 2:3; Luke 1:72; John 6:31; Acts 7:10; Acts 7:19; Acts 13:17; 1 Corinthians 10:4; Galatians 3:17; Hebrews 11:9
Psalm 105 Study Bible
