104:37. And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not
among their tribes one that was feeble.
104:38. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay
upon them.
104:39. He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them
light in the night.
104:40. They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the
bread of heaven.
104:41. He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the
dry land.
104:42. Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his
servant Abraham.
104:43. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with
gladness.
104:44. And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed
the labours of the people:
104:45. That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his
law.
His justifications. . .That is, his commandments; which here, and in
many other places of the scripture, are called justifications, because
the keeping of them makes man just. The Protestants render it by the
word statutes, in favour of their doctrine, which does not allow good
works to justify.
Psalms Chapter 105
Confitemini Domino.
A confession of the manifold sins and ingratitudes of the Israelites.
Alleluia.
105:1. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
105:2. Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth
all his praises?
105:3. Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all
times.
105:4. Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with
thy salvation.
105:5. That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in
the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.
105:6. We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have
wrought iniquity.
105:7. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered
not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up
to the sea, even the Red Sea.
105:8. And he saved them for his own name's sake: that he might make
his power known.
105:9. And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them
through the depths, as in a wilderness.
105:10. And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he
redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
105:11. And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not
one of them left.
105:12. And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.
105:13. They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited
not for his counsel.
105:14. And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted
God in the place without water.
105:15. And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their
souls.
105:16. And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the
Lord.
105:17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the
congregation of Abiron.
105:18. And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned
the wicked.
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