The Lord Can Be Trusted

105 Praise the Lord and pray in his name!  Tell everyone what he has done.
² Sing praises to the Lord!  Tell about his miracles.
³ Celebrate and worship his holy name with all your heart.

⁴ Trust the Lord and his mighty power.
⁵ Remember his miracles and all his wonders and his fair decisions.
⁶ You belong to the family of Abraham, his servant; you are his chosen ones, the descendants of Jacob.

⁷ The Lord is our God, bringing justice everywhere on earth.
⁸ He will never forget his agreement or his promises, not in thousands of years.
⁹ God made an eternal promise ¹⁰ to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ¹¹ when he said, “I’ll give you the land of Canaan.”

 

²⁶ God sent his servant Moses. He also chose and sent Aaron ²⁷  to his people in Egypt, and they worked miracles and wonders there.
²⁸ Moses and Aaron obeyed God, and he sent darkness to cover Egypt.
²⁹ God turned their rivers into streams of blood, and the fish all died.
³⁰ Frogs were everywhere, even in the royal palace.
³¹ When God gave the command, flies and gnats swarmed all around.

³² In place of rain, God sent hailstones and flashes of lightning.
³³ He destroyed their grapevines and their fig trees, and he made splinters of all the other trees.
³⁴ God gave the command, and more grasshoppers came than could be counted.
³⁵ They ate every green plant and all the crops that grew in the land of Egypt.
³⁶ Then God took the life of every first-born son.

³⁷ When God led Israel from Egypt, they took silver and gold, and no one was left behind.
³⁸ The Egyptians were afraid and gladly let them go.
³⁹ God hid them under a cloud and guided them by fire during the night.

⁴⁰ When they asked for food, he sent more birds than they could eat.
⁴¹ God even split open a rock, and streams of water gushed into the desert.
⁴² God never forgot his sacred promise to his servant Abraham.

⁴³ When the Lord rescued his chosen people from Egypt, they celebrated with songs.
⁴⁴ The Lord gave them the land and everything else the nations had worked for.
⁴⁵ He did this so that his people would obey all of his laws.
Shout praises to the Lord!

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