Psalm 105:26-45

26 He ¹sent Moses His servant, And ²Aaron, whom He had chosen.

27 They ³performed His wondrous acts among them, And miracles in the land of Ham.

28 He ⁴sent darkness and made it dark; And they did not ⁵rebel against His words.

29 He ⁶turned their waters into blood And caused their fish to die.

30 Their land swarmed with ⁷frogs Even in the ⁸chambers of their kings.

31 He spoke, and there came a ⁹swarm of flies And ¹⁰gnats in all their territory.

32 He gave them ¹¹hail for rain, And flaming fire in their land.

33 He ¹²struck down their vines also and their fig trees, And shattered the trees of their territory.

34 He spoke, and ¹³locusts came, And young locusts, even without number,

35 And ate up all vegetation in their land, And ate up the fruit of their ground.

36 He also ¹⁴struck down all the firstborn in their land, The ¹⁵first fruits of all their vigor.

37 Then He brought them out with ¹⁶silver and gold, And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.

38 Egypt was ¹⁷glad when they departed, For the ¹⁸dread of them had fallen upon them.

39 He spread a ¹⁹cloud for a covering, And ²⁰fire to illumine by night.

40 They ²¹asked, and He brought ²²quail, And satisfied them with the ²³bread of heaven.

41 He opened the rock and ²⁴water flowed out; It ran in the dry places like a river.

42 For He ²⁵remembered His holy word With Abraham His servant;

43 And He brought forth His people with joy, His chosen ones with a joyful ²⁶shout.

44 He ²⁷gave them also the lands of the nations, That they ²⁸might take possession of the fruit of the peoples' labor,

45 So that they might ²⁹keep His statutes And observe His laws, Praise the LORD!

Psalm 105:26-45 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 105

This psalm was penned by David, and sung at the time when the ark was brought from the house of Obededom to the place which David had prepared for it; at least the first fifteen verses of it, the other part being probably added afterwards by the same inspired penman, as appears from 1Ch 16:1-7. The subject matter of the psalm is the special and distinguishing goodness of God to the children of Israel, and to his church and people, of which they were typical: the history of God's regard to and care of their principal ancestors, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph and of the whole body of the people, in bringing them out of Egypt, leading them through the wilderness, and settling them in the land of Canaan, is here recited, as an argument for praise and thankfulness.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 3:10; Exodus 4:12
• 2. Exodus 4:14; Numbers 16:5; Numbers 17:5-8
• 3. Psalms 78:43-51; Psalms 105:27-36
• 4. Exodus 10:21, 22
• 5. Psalms 99:7
• 6. Exodus 7:20, 21
• 7. Exodus 8:6
• 8. Exodus 8:3
• 9. Exodus 8:21
• 10. Exodus 8:16, 17
• 11. Exodus 9:23-25
• 12. Psalms 78:47
• 13. Exodus 10:12-15
• 14. Exodus 12:29; Exodus 13:15; Psalms 135:8; Psalms 136:10
• 15. Genesis 49:3
• 16. Exodus 12:35, 36
• 17. Exodus 12:33
• 18. Exodus 15:16
• 19. Exodus 13:21; Nehemiah 9:12; Psalms 78:14; Isaiah 4:5
• 20. Exodus 40:38
• 21. Exodus 16:12; Psalms 78:18
• 22. Exodus 16:13; Numbers 11:31; Psalms 78:27
• 23. Exodus 16:15; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalms 78:24; John 6:31
• 24. Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:11; Psalms 78:15; Psalms 114:8; Isaiah 48:21; 1 Corinthians 10:4
• 25. Genesis 15:13, 14; Psalms 105:8
• 26. Exodus 15:1; Psalms 106:12
• 27. Joshua 11:16-23; Joshua 13:7; Psalms 78:55
• 28. Deuteronomy 6:10, 11
• 29. Deuteronomy 4:1, 40

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "set the words of His signs"
• [b] Or "made their rain hail"
• [c] Or "curtain"
• [d] Or "One"
• [e] Or "food"
• [f] Or "boulder"
• [g] Lit "They went"
• [h] Or "Gentiles"
• [i] Or "Hallelujah!"
• [j] Heb YAH