God Has Not Forgotten You

⁸ He has remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded to a thousand generations,
⁹ The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac.
¹⁰ Then He confirmed it to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹ Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the portion of your inheritance,”
¹² When they were only a few people in number,
Very few, and strangers in it.
¹³ And they wandered from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴ He allowed no one to oppress them,
And He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying,
¹⁵ “Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do not harm My prophets.”

¹⁶ And He called for a famine upon the land;
He broke the whole staff of bread.
¹⁷ He sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
¹⁸ They forced his feet into shackles,
He was put in irons;
¹⁹ Until the time that his word came to pass,
The word of the Lord refined him.
²⁰ The king sent and released him,
The ruler of peoples, and set him free.
²¹ He made him lord of his house,
And ruler over all his possessions,
²² To imprison his high officials at will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.
²³ Israel also came into Egypt;
So Jacob lived in the land of Ham.
²⁴ And He made His people very fruitful,
And made them stronger than their enemies.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate His people,
To deal cunningly with His servants.
²⁶ He sent His servant Moses,
And Aaron, whom He had chosen.
²⁷ They performed His wondrous acts among them,
And miracles in the land of Ham.
²⁸ He sent darkness and made it dark;
And they did not rebel against His words.
²⁹ He turned their waters into blood,
And caused their fish to die.
³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs
Even in the chambers of their kings.
³¹ He spoke, and a swarm of flies
And gnats invaded all their territory.
³² He gave them hail for rain,
And flaming fire in their land.
³³ He also struck their vines and their fig trees,
And smashed the trees of their territory.
³⁴ He spoke, and locusts came,
And creeping locusts, beyond number,
³⁵ And they ate all the vegetation in their land,
And ate the fruit of their ground.
³⁶ He also fatally struck all the firstborn in their land,
The first fruits of all their vigor.

³⁷ Then He brought the Israelites out with silver and gold,
And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.
³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed,
For the dread of them had fallen upon the Egyptians.
³⁹ He spread out a cloud as a covering,
And fire to illumine by night.
⁴⁰ They asked, and He brought quail,
And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
⁴¹ He opened the rock and water flowed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river.
⁴² For He remembered His holy word
With His servant Abraham;
⁴³ And He led out His people with joy,
His chosen ones with a joyful shout.
⁴⁴ He also gave them the lands of the nations,
So that they might take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,
⁴⁵ And that they might keep His statutes
And comply with His laws;
Praise the Lord!