1Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good!
His faithful love endures forever.
2Give thanks to the God of gods.
His faithful love endures forever.
3Give thanks to the Lord of lords.
His faithful love endures forever.
4Give thanks to him who alone does mighty miracles.
His faithful love endures forever.
5Give thanks to him who made the heavens so skillfully.
His faithful love endures forever.
6Give thanks to him who placed the earth among the waters.
His faithful love endures forever.
7Give thanks to him who made the heavenly lights—
His faithful love endures forever.
8the sun to rule the day,
His faithful love endures forever.
9and the moon and stars to rule the night.
His faithful love endures forever.
10Give thanks to him who killed the firstborn of Egypt.
His faithful love endures forever.
11He brought Israel out of Egypt.
His faithful love endures forever.
12He acted with a strong hand and powerful arm.
His faithful love endures forever.
His faithful love endures forever.
14He led Israel safely through,
His faithful love endures forever.
15but he hurled Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea.
His faithful love endures forever.
16Give thanks to him who led his people through the wilderness.
His faithful love endures forever.
17Give thanks to him who struck down mighty kings.
His faithful love endures forever.
18He killed powerful kings—
His faithful love endures forever.
19Sihon king of the Amorites,
His faithful love endures forever.
20and Og king of Bashan.
His faithful love endures forever.
21God gave the land of these kings as an inheritance—
His faithful love endures forever.
22a special possession to his servant Israel.
His faithful love endures forever.
23He remembered us in our weakness.
His faithful love endures forever.
24He saved us from our enemies.
His faithful love endures forever.
25He gives food to every living thing.
His faithful love endures forever.
26Give thanks to the God of heaven.
His faithful love endures forever.
There have been a few years my dad before all of our family has read this proclamation by William Bradford regarding the first Thanksgiving and I wanted to leave you with a quick blog with the history of Israel and America. Be thankful for all God has done for you.
First Proclamation After Plymouth
Governor Bradford of Massachusetts made this first Thanksgiving Proclamation three years after the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth:
"Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as He has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience.
Now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones, do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, between the hours of 9 and 12 in the daytime, on Thursday, November 29th, of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty three and the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to ye pastor and render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings."
William Bradford
Ye Governor of Ye Colony |
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