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1Oh give thanks to the Lord , for he is good,[#Ps. 105:1; #Ps. 100:5]
for his steadfast love endures forever!
2Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,[#Ps. 106:10]
whom he has redeemed from trouble
3and gathered in from the lands,[#Ps. 106:47; Deut. 30:3; Isa. 11:12; 43:5; 56:8; Jer. 29:14; 31:8, 10; Ezek. 20:34, 41; 39:27]
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.
4Some wandered in desert wastes,[#40; Deut. 32:10]
finding no way to a city to dwell in;
5hungry and thirsty,
their soul fainted within them.
6Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,[#13, 19, 28; Ps. 106:44]
and he delivered them from their distress.
7He led them by a straight way[#Ezra 8:21]
till they reached a city to dwell in.
8Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,[#15, 21, 31]
for his wondrous works to the children of man!
9For he satisfies the longing soul,[#Ps. 34:10; 146:7]
and the hungry soul he fills with good things.
10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,[#Luke 1:79; Isa. 42:7; 49:9; Mic. 7:8; #14; Job 10:21]
prisoners in affliction and in irons,
11for they had rebelled against the words of God,[#Ps. 106:7, 33, 43; Ps. 78:40]
and spurned the counsel of the Most High.
12So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor;
they fell down, with none to help.
13Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,[#6, 19, 28]
and he delivered them from their distress.
14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,[#10]
and burst their bonds apart.
15Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,[#8, 21, 31]
for his wondrous works to the children of man!
16For he shatters the doors of bronze[#Isa. 45:2]
and cuts in two the bars of iron.
17Some were fools through their sinful ways,[#Prov. 1:7; 14:9]
and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
18they loathed any kind of food,[#Job 33:20]
and they drew near to the gates of death.
19Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,[#6, 13, 28]
and he delivered them from their distress.
20He sent out his word and healed them,[#Ps. 147:15, 18; Matt. 8:8; #Ps. 30:2, 3; 2 Kgs. 20:5; Job 33:29, 30]
and delivered them from their destruction.
21Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,[#8, 15, 31]
for his wondrous works to the children of man!
22And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,[#Ps. 50:14]
and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!
23Some went down to the sea in ships,[#Isa. 42:10]
doing business on the great waters;
24they saw the deeds of the Lord ,
his wondrous works in the deep.
25For he commanded and raised the stormy wind,[#Ps. 105:31, 34; #Ps. 148:8; Jonah 1:4]
which lifted up the waves of the sea.
26They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths;
their courage melted away in their evil plight;
27they reeled and staggered like drunken men[#Isa. 24:20; 29:9; Job 12:25]
and were at their wits’ end.
28Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,[#6, 13, 19]
and he delivered them from their distress.
29He made the storm be still,[#Ps. 65:7]
and the waves of the sea were hushed.
30Then they were glad that the waters were quiet,[#107:30 Hebrew]
and he brought them to their desired haven.
31Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,[#8, 15, 21]
for his wondrous works to the children of man!
32Let them extol him in the congregation of the people,[#Ps. 99:5; #Ps. 22:22, 25]
and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
33He turns rivers into a desert,[#Isa. 50:2; Isa. 42:15]
springs of water into thirsty ground,
34a fruitful land into a salty waste,[#Gen. 13:10; 14:3; Deut. 29:23]
because of the evil of its inhabitants.
35He turns a desert into pools of water,[#Ps. 114:8; Isa. 41:18; Isa. 35:6, 7; 43:19, 20]
a parched land into springs of water.
36And there he lets the hungry dwell,
and they establish a city to live in;
37they sow fields and plant vineyards
and get a fruitful yield.
38By his blessing they multiply greatly,[#Gen. 12:2; 17:20; Ex. 1:7]
and he does not let their livestock diminish.
39When they are diminished and brought low
through oppression, evil, and sorrow,
40he pours contempt on princes[#Job 12:21]
and makes them wander in trackless wastes;
41but he raises up the needy out of affliction[#Ps. 113:7, 8; 1 Sam. 2:8]
and makes their families like flocks.
42The upright see it and are glad,[#Job 22:19]
and all wickedness shuts its mouth.
43Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things;[#Ps. 64:9; Jer. 9:12; Hos. 14:9]
let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord .