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Give praise to the Lord, proclaim His name
Make known among the nations what He has done
Sing to Him, sing praise to Him
Tell of all His wonderful acts cause as our Lord there is none

Glory in His holy name
Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice
Look to the Lord and his strength
Seek His face always

Remember the wonders He has done
His miracles, and the judgments He pronounced
You His servants, the descendants of Abraham
His chosen ones, the children of Jacob as was announced

He is the Lord our God
His judgments are in all the earth for all the nations
He remembers His covenant forever
The promise He made, for a thousand generations

The covenant He made with Abraham
The oath He swore to Isaac and
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree
To Israel as an everlasting covenant:

“To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the portion you will inherit”
When they were but few in number
Few indeed, and strangers in it

They wandered from nation to nation
From one kingdom to another kingdom
He allowed no one to oppress them
For their sake He rebuked kings appealing to their wisdom:

“Do not touch my anointed ones
Do my prophets no harm”
He called down famine on the land
And destroyed all their supplies of food by His arm

And He sent a man before them—
Joseph, sold as a slave
They bruised his feet with shackles
His neck was put in irons but still he was safe

Till what He foretold came to pass
Till the word of the Lord proved him true
The king sent and released him
The ruler of peoples set him free, did what was due

He made him master of his household
Ruler over all he possessed
To instruct his princes as he pleased
And teach his elders wisdom and he did his best

Then Israel entered Egypt
Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham
After Israel did enter Egypt
Jacob couldn’t stay the same

The Lord made his people very fruitful
He made them too numerous for their foes
Whose hearts He turned to hate His people
To conspire against His servants hoping they’re to lose

He sent Moses His servant
And Aaron, whom He had chosen
They performed His signs among them
His wonders in the land of Ham

He sent darkness and made the land dark—
For had they not rebelled against his words?
He turned their waters into blood
Causing their fish to die per the will of God

Their land teemed with frogs
Which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
And gnats throughout their country to doom it

He turned their rain into hail
With lightning throughout their land
He struck down their vines and fig trees
And shattered the trees of their country as they were growing on the sand

He spoke, and the locusts came
Grasshoppers without number
They ate up every green thing in their land
Ate up the produce of their soil as they were hungry

Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land
The firstfruits of all their manhood
He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold
And from among their tribes no one faltered as it should

Egypt was glad when they left
Because dread of Israel had fallen on them
He spread out a cloud as a covering
And a fire to give light at night to them

They asked, and He brought them quail
He fed them well with the heaven’s bread
He opened the rock, and water gushed out
It flowed like a river in the desert

For He remembered His holy promise
Given to Abraham, His servant
He brought out His people with rejoicing
His chosen ones with shouts of joy and observed it

He gave them the lands of the nations
And they fell heir to what others had toiled for—
That they might keep His precepts
And observe His laws