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Psalms 105

1 He praiseth the singular grace of God, who hath of all the people of the world chosen a peculiar people to him self, and having chosen them, never ceaseth to do them good, even for his promise sake.
1.aPraise the Lord, and call upon his Name: declare his works among the people
2.Sing unto him, sing praise unto him, and talk of all his wonderous works.
3.Rejoyce in his holie Name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord, rejoyce.
4.Seek the Lord and his bstrength: seek his face continually.
5.Remember his cmarvelous works, that he hath done, his wonders and the djudgements of his mouth,
6.Ye seed of Abrahám his servant, ye children of Jaakób, which are his elect.
7.He is the Lord our God: his judgements are through all the earth.
8.He hath alwaie remembred his covenant and promise, that he made to a thousand generations,
9.Even that which he emade with Abrahám and his othe unto Izhák:
10.And since hath confirmed it to Jaakób for a law, and to Israél for an everlasting covenant,
11.Saying, fUnto thee wil I give the land of Canáan, the lot of your inheritance.
12.Albeit they were few in number, yea, very few and strangers in the land,
13.And walked about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
14.Yet suffered he no man to do them wrong, but reproved gKings for their sakes, saying,
15.Touch not mine hanointed, and do my iProphetes no harm.
16.Moreover he called a famine upon the land, and utterly brake the kstaff of bread.
17.But he sent a man before them: Joséph was sold for a slave.
18.They held his feet in the stocks, and he was laied in yrons,
19.Until lhis appointed time came, and the counsel of the Lord had tried him.
20.The King sent and losed him: even the Ruler of the people delivered him.
21.He made him Lord of his house, & ruler of all his substance,
22.That he should bind his mprinces unto his will, and teach his Ancients wisdom.
23.Then Israél came to Egypt, and Jaakób was a stranger in the land of Ham.
24.And he increased his people exceedingly, and made them stronger then their oppressors.
25.nHe turned their heart to hate his people, and to deal craftily with his servants.
26.Then sent he Mosés his servant, and Aarón whom he had chosen.
27.They shewed among them the message of his signs, and wonders in the land of Ham.
28.He sent darkness, and made it dark: and they were not odisobedient unto his commission.
29.*He turned their waters into blood, and slewe their fish.
30.*Their land brought forth frogs, even in their King’s chambers.
31.He pspake, and there came swarms of flies and lice in all their quarters.
32.He gave them qhail for rain, and flames of fyre in their land.
33.He smote their vines also and their fig trees, and brake down the trees in their coasts.
34.rHe spake, and the grasshoppers came, and caterpillars innumerable,
35.And did eat up all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
36.*He smote also all the firstborn in their land, even the beginning of all their strength.
37.He brought them forth also with silver and gold, and there was snone feeble among their tribes.
38.Egypt was tglad at their departing: for the fear of them had fallen upon them.
39.He spread a cloud to be a covering, and fyre to give light in the night.
40.They uasked, and he brought quails, and he filled them with the bread of heaven.
41.He opened the rock, and the waters flowed out, and ran in the dry places like a river.
42.For he remembred his holie xpromise to Abrahám his servant,
43.And he brought forth his people with yjoy, and his chosen with gladness,
44.And gave them the lands of the heathen, and they took the labours of the people in possession,
45.That they might zkeep his statutes, and observe his Laws. Praise ye the Lord.

Notes

1-a.
Forasmuch as the Israelites were exempted from the common condemnation of the world, and were elected to be God’s people, the Prophet wills them to show themselves mindful by thanksgiving.
4-b.
By the strength and face, he means the Ark where God declared his power and his presence.
5-c.
Which he has wrought in the deliverance of his people.
5-d.
Because his power was thereby as lively declared, as if he should have declared it by mouth.
9-e.
The promise which God made to Abraham to be his God, and the God of his seed after him, he renewed and repeated it again to his seed after him.
11-f.
He shows that they should not enjoy the land of Canaan by any other means, but by reason of his covenant made with their fathers.
14-g.
That is, the King of Egypt & the King of Gerar, Gen. 12.17, & 20.3.
15-h.
Those whom I have sanctified to be my people.
15-i.
Meaning the old fathers, to whom God showed himself plainly, and who were setters forth of his word.
16-k.
Either by sending scarcity, or by taking away the strength and nourishment thereof.
19-l.
So long he suffered adversity, as God had appointed, and till he had tried sufficiently his patience.
22-m.
That the very princes of the country should be at Joseph’s commandment and learn wisdom at him.
25-n.
So it is in God, either to move the hearts of the wicked to love or to hate God’s children.
28-o.
Meaning, Moses and Aaron.
29-*.
Ex. 7.20.
30-*.
Ex. 8.6.
31-p.
So that this vermin came not by fortune, but as God had appointed, and his Prophet Moses spake.
32-q.
It was strange to see rain in Egypt, much more it was fearful to see hail.
34-r.
He shows that all creatures are armed against man, when God is his enemy: as at his commandment the grasshoppers destroyed the land.
36-*.
Ex. 12.29.
37-s.
When their enemies felt God’s plagues, his children by his providence were exempted.
38-t.
For God’s plagues caused them rather to depart with the Israelites then with their lives.
40-u.
Not for necessity, but for satisfying of their lust.
42-x.
Which he confirmed to the posterity, in whom after a sort the dead live and enjoy the promises.
43-y.
When the Egyptians lamented and were destroyed.
45-z.
This is the end, why God preserves his Church, because they should worship, and call upon him in this world.