第 105 篇
上帝和祂的子民
（平行經文：歷代志上16·8-22）
1你們要稱謝耶和華，呼求祂的名，
在列邦傳揚祂的作為。
2要歌頌、讚美祂，
述說祂一切奇妙的作為。
3要以祂的聖名為榮，
願尋求耶和華的人都歡欣。
4要尋求耶和華和祂的能力，
時常來到祂面前。
5-6祂僕人亞伯拉罕的後裔，
祂所揀選的雅各的子孫啊，
要記住祂所行的神蹟奇事和祂口中的判詞。
7祂是我們的上帝耶和華，
祂在普天下施行審判。
8祂永遠記得祂的約，
歷經千代也不忘祂的應許，
9就是祂與亞伯拉罕所立的約，
向以撒所起的誓。
10祂把這約定為律例賜給雅各，
定為永遠的約賜給以色列。
11祂說：「我必把迦南賜給你，
作為你的產業。」
12那時他們人丁稀少，
在當地寄居。
13他們在異國他鄉流離飄零。
14耶和華不容人壓迫他們，
還為他們的緣故責備君王，
15說：「不可難為我膏立的人，
也不可傷害我的先知。」
16祂在那裡降下饑荒，
斷絕一切食物的供應。
17祂派一個人率先前往，
這人就是被賣為奴隸的約瑟。
18他被戴上腳鐐，套上枷鎖，
19直到後來他的預言應驗，
耶和華的話試煉了他。
20埃及王下令釋放他，
百姓的首領給他自由，
21派他執掌朝政，
管理國中的一切，
22有權柄管束王的大臣，
將智慧傳授王的長老。
23以色列來到埃及，
寄居在含地。
24耶和華使祂的子民生養眾多，
比他們的仇敵還要強盛。
25祂使仇敵憎恨他們，
用詭計虐待他們。
26祂派遣祂的僕人摩西和祂揀選的亞倫，
27在埃及行神蹟，
在含地行奇事。
28祂降下黑暗，使黑暗籠罩那裡；
他們沒有違背祂的話。
29祂使埃及的水變成血，
魚都死去；
30又使國中到處是青蛙，
王宮禁院也不能倖免。
31祂一發命令，
蒼蠅蜂擁而至，蝨子遍滿全境。
32祂使雨變成冰雹，
遍地電光閃閃。
33祂擊倒他們的葡萄樹和無花果樹，
摧毀他們境內的樹木。
34祂一發聲，
就飛來無數蝗蟲和螞蚱，
35吃盡他們土地上的植物，
吃盡他們田間的出產。
36祂又擊殺他們境內所有的長子，
就是他們年輕力壯時生的長子。
37祂帶領以色列人攜金帶銀地離開埃及，
各支派中無人畏縮。
38埃及人懼怕他們，
樂見他們離去。
39祂鋪展雲彩為他們遮蔭，
晚上用火給他們照明。
40他們祈求，
祂就賜下鵪鶉，降下天糧，
叫他們飽足。
41祂使磐石裂開、湧出水來，
在乾旱之地奔流成河。
42因為祂沒有忘記祂賜給僕人亞伯拉罕的神聖應許。
43祂帶領自己的子民歡然離去，
祂所揀選的百姓歡唱著前行。
44祂把列國的土地賜給他們，
使他們獲得別人的勞動成果。
45祂這樣做是要使他們持守祂的命令，
遵行祂的律法。
你們要讚美耶和華！
Psalm 105
1Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;
make known among the nations what he has done.
2Sing to him, sing praise to him;
tell of all his wonderful acts.
3Glory in his holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
4Look to the Lord and his strength;
seek his face always.
5Remember the wonders he has done,
his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,
6you his servants, the descendants of Abraham,
his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.
7He is the Lord our God;
his judgments are in all the earth.
8He remembers his covenant forever,
the promise he made, for a thousand generations,
9the covenant he made with Abraham,
the oath he swore to Isaac.
10He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
11“To you I will give the land of Canaan
as the portion you will inherit.”
12When they were but few in number,
few indeed, and strangers in it,
13they wandered from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another.
14He allowed no one to oppress them;
for their sake he rebuked kings:
15“Do not touch my anointed ones;
do my prophets no harm.”
16He called down famine on the land
and destroyed all their supplies of food;
17and he sent a man before them—
Joseph, sold as a slave.
18They bruised his feet with shackles,
his neck was put in irons,
19till what he foretold came to pass,
till the word of the Lord proved him true.
20The king sent and released him,
the ruler of peoples set him free.
21He made him master of his household,
ruler over all he possessed,
22to instruct his princes as he pleased
and teach his elders wisdom.
23Then Israel entered Egypt;
Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham.
24The Lord made his people very fruitful;
he made them too numerous for their foes,
25whose hearts he turned to hate his people,
to conspire against his servants.
26He sent Moses his servant,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
27They performed his signs among them,
his wonders in the land of Ham.
28He sent darkness and made the land dark—
for had they not rebelled against his words?
29He turned their waters into blood,
causing their fish to die.
30Their land teemed with frogs,
which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.
31He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
and gnats throughout their country.
32He turned their rain into hail,
with lightning throughout their land;
33he struck down their vines and fig trees
and shattered the trees of their country.
34He spoke, and the locusts came,
grasshoppers without number;
35they ate up every green thing in their land,
ate up the produce of their soil.
36Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the firstfruits of all their manhood.
37He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold,
and from among their tribes no one faltered.
38Egypt was glad when they left,
because dread of Israel had fallen on them.
39He spread out a cloud as a covering,
and a fire to give light at night.
40They asked, and he brought them quail;
he fed them well with the bread of heaven.
41He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed like a river in the desert.
42For he remembered his holy promise
given to his servant Abraham.
43He brought out his people with rejoicing,
his chosen ones with shouts of joy;
44he gave them the lands of the nations,
and they fell heir to what others had toiled for—
45that they might keep his precepts
and observe his laws.
Praise the Lord.105:45 Hebrew Hallelu Yah
