Psalm 105:23-45, Chant E

 

Psalm 105:23-45  Et intravit Israel

23 Israel came in-to E-gypt, *
and Jacob became a sojourner in the land of Ham.

24 The LORD made his people exceeding-ly fruit-ful; *
he made them stronger than their e-nemies;

25 Whose heart he turned, so that they hated his peo-ple, *
and dealt unjustly with his ser-vants.

26 He sent Moses his ser-vant, *
and Aaron whom he had cho-sen.

27 They worked his signs a-mong them, *
and portents in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness, and it grew dark; *
but the Egyptians rebelled against his words.

29 He turned their waters in-to blood *
and caused their fish to die.

30 Their land was overrun by frogs, *
in the very chambers of their kings.

31 He spoke, and there came swarms of in-sects *
and gnats within all their bor-ders.

32 He gave them hailstones instead of rain, *
and flames of fire throughout their land.

33 He blasted their vines and their fig trees *
and shattered every tree in their coun-try.

34 He spoke, and the lo-cust came, *
and young locusts with-out num-ber,

35 Which ate up all the green plants in their land *
and devoured the fruit of their soil.

36 He struck down the firstborn of their land, *
the firstfruits of all their strength.

37 He led out his people with silver and gold; *
in all their tribes there was not one that stum-bled.

38 Egypt was glad of their go-ing, *
because they were afraid of them.

39 He spread out a cloud for a co-vering *
and a fire to give light in the night sea-son.

40 They asked, and quails ap-peared, *
and he satisfied them with bread from hea-ven.

41 He opened the rock, and wa-ter flowed, *
so the river ran in the dry pla-ces.

42 For God remembered his ho-ly word *
and Abraham his ser-vant.

43 So he led forth his people with glad-ness, *
his chosen with shouts of joy.

44 He gave his people the lands of the na-tions, *
and they took the fruit of o-thers’ toil,

45 That they might keep his sta-tutes *
and observe his laws. Hal-le-lu-jah!

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Ho–ly Spir-it: *
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. A-men.