A broad worn track of many feet runs from a far pale shore across a desert plain toward blue hill country, with no one on it, under a wide sky.

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Psalm 105

Israel’s story, sung as one long promise kept. For the day you need reminding that He remembers.

45 verses≈ 4 minBSB

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Where we are

1–41Book IDavid's prayers: 'The LORD is my shepherd'
42–72Book II'As the deer pants'; the throne under pressure
73–89Book IIIAsaph and Korah: the kingdom falls
90–106Book IVBack to Moses: the LORD reignsPsalm 105
107–150Book VSongs of ascents, and the last Hallelujah

Tell of His Wonders

Early morning before a plain tent with its curtain shut: Levites in long white linen robes play lyres and upright harps in a half circle, a singer in front lifts bronze cymbals, and two priests stand ready with long silver trumpets.

Give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name;

make known His deeds among the nations.

Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;

tell of all His wonders.

Glory in His holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

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Seek out the LORD and His strength;

seek His face always.

Remember the wonders He has done,

His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

O offspring of His servant Abraham,

O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

He is the LORD our God;

His judgments carry throughout the earth.

He remembers His covenant forever,

the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

the covenant He made with Abraham,

and the oath He swore to Isaac.

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree,

to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

God

Green, rocky hill country in spring, goats grazing among wildflowers, wild honeycomb in a cleft of the rock in the foreground.

“I will give you the land of Canaan

as the portion of your inheritance.”

When they were few in number,

few indeed, and strangers in the land,

they wandered from nation to nation,

from one kingdom to another.

He let no man oppress them;

He rebuked kings on their behalf:

God

Reflect

Before you could see it

A small family, a long way from any promise kept, and He was already at work. When was God at work in your life before you could see it?

Early morning on the bank of the Nile: two old men with staffs wait by the reeds, seen from behind, as a royal procession with tall fans comes down to the water.

Then Israel entered Egypt;

Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

And the LORD made His people very fruitful,

more numerous than their foes,

whose hearts He turned to hate His people,

to conspire against His servants.

He sent Moses His servant,

and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

They performed His miraculous signs among them,

and wonders in the land of Ham.

He sent darkness, and it became dark—

yet they defied His words.

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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain

Then He struck all the firstborn in their land,

the firstfruits of all their vigor.

Question

Quick question

The poet tells the plagues in his own order.

Which plague does Psalm 105 name first?

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Into Egypt and out again

A family goes down hungry and a nation comes back. The same road serves the next psalm.

He brought Israel out with silver and gold,

and none among His tribes stumbled.

Egypt was glad when they departed,

for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.

Morning on a desert road: a long line of families seen small from the side, women singing with frame drums, children running ahead.

For He remembered His holy promise

to Abraham His servant.

He brought forth His people with rejoicing,

His chosen with shouts of joy.

He gave them the lands of the nations,

that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,

that they might keep His statutes

and obey His laws.

Hallelujah!

Pray

Tell it back

Tell God your own story from the beginning: where He found you, what He brought you through, what He has kept. You needn’t make it sound good. Then end the way the psalm ends: “Hallelujah!”

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A verse to carry with you

Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

Psalm 105:4

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