Psalm 104

Masoretic — Psalm 105

Alleluia.

Give thanks to the Lord and call upon His name;

Report His works among the Gentiles;

Sing to Him, and play a stringed instrument to Him;

Describe all His wonderful works.

Praise His holy name;

Let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad;

Seek the Lord and be strengthened;

Seek His face continually.

Remember the wonders He performed,

Of His marvels and the judgments of His mouth,

O seed of Abraham, His servants,

O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

He is the Lord our God;

His judgments are in all the earth.

Remember His covenant forever,

And His word He commanded for a thousand generations,

Which He established with Abraham,

And His oath with Isaac;

And He established it as an ordinance with Jacob

And as an everlasting covenant with Israel,

Saying, “I shall give you the land of Canaan

As the portion of your inheritance.”

When they were few in number,

The smallest and sojourners in the land,

And passed through from nation to nation,

From a kingdom to a different people,

He allowed no man to wrong them;

And He reproved kings on their behalf:

“Do not touch My anointed ones,

And do not act wickedly towards My prophets.”

And He called a famine upon the land;

He shattered all their provision of bread;

He sent a man before them;

He sold Joseph into slavery.

They humbled his feet with fetters;

His soul passed into the iron

Until his word came to pass;

The revelation of the Lord tried him in the fire.

The king, the ruler of the people, sent and released him,

And he acquitted him.

He made him lord of his house

And ruler of all his domain,

To instruct his rulers as himself

And to teach his elders wisdom.

And Israel came into Egypt,

And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham;

He increased His people greatly,

And made them stronger than their enemies.

He changed their heart to hate His people,

To deal craftily with His servants.

He sent Moses His servant;

He sent Aaron, whom He chose.

He put among them the words of His signs

And of His wonders in the land of Ham.

He sent darkness, and it grew dark;

And they rebelled against His words.

He turned their waters into blood,

And He killed their fish.

Their land produced frogs

In the chambers of their kings.

He spoke and the dog-fly came,

And gnats in all their borders.

He gave them hail for rain;

Fire burned up their land;

And He smote their vineyards and their fig trees,

And He shattered every tree in their domain.

He spoke, and the locust came,

And the caterpillar without number,

And ate up all the grass in their land,

And devoured the fruit of their land.

And He smote all the firstborn in their land,

The firstling of all their labor.

He led them out with silver and gold,

And there was not among their tribes one who was feeble.

Egypt was gladdened by their exodus,

For fear of them fell upon them.

He spread a cloud as a cover for them,

And a fire to give them light at night.

They asked, and the quails came,

And He filled them with the bread of heaven.

He split the rock, and the waters flowed;

The rivers ran in the waterless places.

For He remembered His holy word

Which He gave to His servant Abraham.

He brought out His people with exceeding joy,

And His chosen ones with gladness.

And He gave them the lands of the nations,

And they inherited the labors of the peoples,

So they might keep His ordinances,

And seek out His law.

Old Testament text from the St. Athanasius Academy Septuagint™. Copyright © 2008 by St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology. Used by permission. All rights reserved.