Commentary on Psalms - Volume 5

1Celebrate ye Jehovah; invoke his name: Announce among the peoples his works.

2Sing ye to him: sing psalms to him: Speak of all his wonders.

3Rejoice ye in his holy name: Rejoice let the heart of those who seek Jehovah.

4Seek ye Jehovah, and his strength; Seek his face continually.

5Remember the marvelous works which he hath done; His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.

6Ye seed of Abraham, his servant, The sons of Jacob his chosen one:

7He is Jehovah our God; Through all the earth are his judgments.

8He hath remembered for ever his covenant, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations:

9Which he made with Abraham, And his oath which he swore to Isaac;

10And established it to Jacob for a law, To Israel for an everlasting covenant:

11Saying, “To thee will I give the land of Canaan, “The cord of your inheritance.”

12When they were very few in number; And strangers in it;

13And walked about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people,

14He did not suffer men to hurt them; And rebuked for their sake kings;

15Saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, “And to my prophets do no harm.”

16And he called a famine upon the land; All the stall of bread he broke.

17He sent before them a man, For a slave sold was Joseph.

18They afflicted in the fetters his feet: The iron entered into his soul:

19Until the time that his word came: The word of Jehovah tried him.

20Send did the king and loosed him; Even the ruler of the peoples, and freed him.

21He made him lord over his house; And ruler over all his substance:

22To bind his princes at his pleasure; And to teach his elders wisdom.

23And come did Israel into Egypt; And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

24And he increased his people exceedingly, He multiplied them above their oppressors.

25He turned their heart so that they hated his people, And dealt craftily with his servants.

26He sent Moses, his servant; Aaron, whom he chose.

27They set among them the words of his signs, And his miracles in the land of Ham.

28He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they were not rebellious against his words.

29He turned their waters into blood, And killed their fish.

30Their land brought forth frogs, Yea even within the chambers of their kings.

31He spake and there came a swarm of flies, Lice in all their borders.

32He gave them for rain, hail, Flaming fire upon their land.

33And he smote their vines and their fig-trees; And destroyed every tree of their border.

34He spake, and there came the locust, And the caterpillar without number;

35And they devoured all the herbage in their land, And consumed the fruit of their ground.

36And he smote all the firstborn in their land, The beginning of all their strength.

37And he brought them forth with silver and gold: And not one among their tribes was a feeble person.

38Glad was Egypt at their departure; For fallen upon them had their terror.

39He spread out a cloud for a covering; And fire to give light by the night.

40He ³⁶⁹ asked, and brought quails, And with the bread of heaven he filled them.

41He opened the rock, and there gushed out waters; They ran in the dry places like a river.

42For he remembered the word of his holiness, Which he had spoken to Abraham his servant.

43And he brought forth his people with joy, With exultation his chosen ones.

44And he gave them the lands of the nations: And the labor of the peoples they inherited.

45That they might keep his ordinances, And that his law they might observe. Hallelujah.