e Lord.
103:35. Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the unjust, so
that they be no more: O my soul, bless thou the Lord.
Psalms Chapter 104
Confitemini Domino.
A thanksgiving to God for his benefits to his people Israel.
Alleluia.
104:1. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds
among the Gentiles.
104:2. Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous
works.
104:3. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that
seek the Lord.
104:4. Seek ye the lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.
104:5. Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders,
and the judgments of his mouth.
104:6. O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.
104:7. He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
104:8. He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he
commanded to a thousand generations.
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
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