1  ^tOh give thanks to the Lord; ^ucall upon his name;

^vmake known his deeds among the peoples!

2  Sing to him, sing praises to him;

^wtell of all his wondrous works!

3  Glory in his holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

4  Seek the Lord and his ^xstrength;

^yseek his presence continually!

5  Remember the ^zwondrous works that he has done,

his miracles, and ^athe judgments he uttered,

6  O offspring of ^bAbraham, his servant,

children of Jacob, his ^cchosen ones!

7  He is the Lord our God;

his ^djudgments are in all the earth.

8  He ^eremembers his covenant forever,

the word that he commanded, for ^fa thousand generations,

9  ^gthe covenant that he made with Abraham,

his ^hsworn promise to Isaac,

10  which he confirmed to ⁱJacob as a statute,

to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

11  saying, ^j“To you I will give the land of Canaan

as ^kyour portion for an inheritance.”

12  When they were ^lfew in number,

of little account, and ^msojourners in it,

13  wandering from nation to nation,

from one kingdom to another people,

14  he ⁿallowed no one to oppress them;

he ^orebuked kings on their account,

15  saying, ^p“Touch not my anointed ones,

do my prophets no harm!”

16  When he ^qsummoned a famine on the land

and ^rbroke all supply¹ of bread,

17  he had ^ssent a man ahead of them,

Joseph, who was ^tsold as a slave.

18  His ^ufeet were hurt with fetters;

his neck was put in a collar of iron;

19  until ^vwhat he had said came to pass,

the word of the Lord ^wtested him.

20  ^xThe king sent and ^yreleased him;

the ruler of the peoples set him free;

21  he ^zmade him lord of his house

and ruler of all his possessions,

22  to bind² his princes at his pleasure

and to teach his elders wisdom.

23  Then ^aIsrael came to Egypt;

Jacob ^bsojourned in ^cthe land of Ham.

24  And the Lord ^dmade his people very fruitful

and made them stronger than their foes.

25  He ^eturned their hearts to hate his people,

to ^fdeal craftily with his servants.

26  He ^gsent Moses, his servant,

and Aaron, ^hwhom he had chosen.

27  ⁱThey performed his signs among them

and miracles in ^cthe land of Ham.

28  He ^jsent darkness, and made the land dark;

they ^kdid not rebel³ against his words.

29  He turned their waters into blood

and ^lcaused their fish to die.

30  Their land swarmed with frogs,

even in ^mthe chambers of their kings.

31  He spoke, and there came ⁿswarms of flies,

^oand gnats throughout their country.

32  He gave them hail for rain,

and fiery ^plightning bolts through their land.

33  He struck down their vines and fig trees,

and ^qshattered the trees of their country.

34  He spoke, and the ^rlocusts came,

young locusts without number,

35  which devoured all the vegetation in their land

and ate up the fruit of their ground.

36  He ^sstruck down all the firstborn in their land,

^sthe firstfruits of all their strength.

37  Then he brought out Israel with ^tsilver and gold,

and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.

38  ^uEgypt was glad when they departed,

for ^vdread of them had fallen upon it.

39  He ^wspread a cloud for a covering,

and fire to give light by night.

40  ^xThey asked, and he ^ybrought quail,

and gave them ^zbread from heaven in abundance.

41  He opened the rock, and ^awater gushed out;

it flowed through ^bthe desert like a river.

42  For he ^cremembered his holy promise,

and ^dAbraham, his servant.

43  So he brought his people out with joy,

his ^dchosen ones with ^esinging.

44  And he ^fgave them the lands of the nations,

and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples’ toil,

45  that they might ^gkeep his statutes

and ^hobserve his laws.

ⁱPraise the Lord!

2  ^eHear, you peoples, all of you;¹

^fpay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,

and ^glet the Lord God be a witness against you,

^hthe Lord from his holy temple.

3  For behold, ⁱthe Lord is coming out of ^jhis place,

and will come down and ^ktread upon the high places of the earth.

4  And ^lthe mountains will melt under him,

and the valleys will split open,

like wax before the fire,

like waters poured down a steep place.

5  All this is for ^mthe transgression of Jacob

and for the sins of the house of Israel.

ⁿWhat is the transgression of Jacob?

Is it not ^dSamaria?

And what is ^othe high place of Judah?

Is it not Jerusalem?

6  Therefore I will make ^dSamaria ^pa heap in the open country,

a place for planting vineyards,

and I will pour down her stones ^qinto the valley

and ^runcover her foundations.

7  All ^sher carved images shall be beaten to pieces,

^tall her wages shall be burned with fire,

and all her idols I will lay waste,

for from ^tthe fee of a prostitute she gathered them,

and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

8  ^uFor this I will lament and wail;

I will go ^vstripped and naked;

I will make lamentation ^wlike the jackals,

and mourning ^xlike the ostriches.

9  ^yFor her wound is incurable,

and it has come to Judah;

it has reached to the gate of my people,

to Jerusalem.

10  ^zTell it not in ^aGath;

weep not at all;

in Beth-le-aphrah

^broll yourselves in the dust.

11  Pass on your way,

inhabitants of Shaphir,

^cin nakedness and shame;

the inhabitants of Zaanan

do not come out;

the lamentation of Beth-ezel

shall take away from you its standing place.

12  For the inhabitants of Maroth

wait anxiously for good,

because disaster has come down ^dfrom the Lord

to the gate of Jerusalem.

13  Harness the steeds to the chariots,

inhabitants of ^eLachish;

it was the beginning of sin

to the daughter of Zion,

for in you were found

^fthe transgressions of Israel.

14  Therefore you shall give parting gifts²

to ^gMoresheth-gath;

the houses of ^hAchzib shall be a deceitful thing

to the kings of Israel.

15  I will again bring ⁱa conqueror to you,

inhabitants of ^hMareshah;

the glory of Israel

shall come to ^jAdullam.

16  ^kMake yourselves bald and cut off your hair,

for the children of your delight;

^kmake yourselves as bald as the eagle,

for they shall go from you into exile.