104:9. Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac: 104:10. And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament: 104:11. Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance. 104:12. When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein: 104:13. And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. 104:14. He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes. 104:15. Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets. 104:16. And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread. 104:17. He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave. 104:18. They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul, 104:19. Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him. 104:20. The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty. 104:21. He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession. 104:22. That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom. 104:23. And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham. 104:24. And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies. 104:25. He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants. He turned their heart, etc. . .Not that God (who is never the author of sin) moved the Egyptians to hate and persecute his people; but that the Egyptians took occasion of hating and envying them, from the sight of the benefits which God bestowed upon them. 104:26. He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen. 104:27. He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham. 104:28. He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words. Grieved not his words. . .That is, he was not wanting to fulfil his words: or he did not grieve Moses and Aaron, the carriers of his words: or he did not grieve his words, that is, his sons, the children of Israel, who enjoyed light whilst the Egyptians were oppressed with darkness. 104:29. He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish. 104:30. Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings. 104:31. He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts. Sciniphs. . .See the annotation, Ex.8.16. 104:32. He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land. 104:33. And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts. 104:34. He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number. Bruchus. . .An insect of the locust kind. 104:35. And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground. 104:36. And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour.