BOOK 5

¹Y’all give thanks to YHWH, for ʜᴇ is good,

for ʜɪꜱ lovingkindness endures forever.

²Let the redeemed by YHWH say so,

whom ʜᴇ has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

³and gathered out of the lands,

from the east and from the west,

from the north and from the south.

⁴They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way.

They found no city to live in.

⁵Hungry and thirsty,

their soul fainted in them.

⁶Then they cried to YHWH in their trouble,

and ʜᴇ delivered them out of their distresses.

⁷Hᴇ led them also by a straight way,

that they might go to a city to live in.

⁸Let them praise YHWH for ʜɪꜱ lovingkindness,

for ʜɪꜱ wonderful deeds to the children of men!

⁹For ʜᴇ satisfies the longing soul.

Hᴇ fills the hungry soul with good.

¹⁰Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,

being bound in affliction and iron,

¹¹because they rebelled against the words of God,

and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

¹²Therefore ʜᴇ brought down their heart with labor.

They fell down, and there was no one to help.

¹³Then they cried to YHWH in their trouble,

and ʜᴇ saved them out of their distresses.

¹⁴Hᴇ brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,

and broke away their chains.

¹⁵Let them praise YHWH for ʜɪꜱ lovingkindness,

for ʜɪꜱ wonderful deeds to the children of men!

¹⁶For ʜᴇ has broken the gates of bronze,

and cut through bars of iron.

¹⁷Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience,

and because of their iniquities.

¹⁸Their soul abhors all kinds of food.

They draw near to the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cry to YHWH in their trouble,

and ʜᴇ saves them out of their distresses.

²⁰Hᴇ sends ʜɪꜱ word, and heals them,

and delivers them from their graves.

²¹Let them praise YHWH for ʜɪꜱ lovingkindness,

for ʜɪꜱ wonderful deeds to the children of men!

²²Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,

and declare ʜɪꜱ deeds with singing.

²³Those who go down to the sea in ships,

who do business in great waters,

²⁴these see YHWH’s deeds,

and ʜɪꜱ wonders in the deep.

²⁵For ʜᴇ commands, and raises the stormy wind,

which lifts up its waves.

²⁶They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths.

Their soul melts away because of trouble.

²⁷They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man,

and are at their wits’ end.

²⁸Then they cry to YHWH in their trouble,

and ʜᴇ brings them out of their distress.

²⁹Hᴇ makes the storm a calm,

so that its waves are still.

³⁰Then they are glad because it is calm,

so ʜᴇ brings them to their desired haven.

³¹Let them praise YHWH for ʜɪꜱ lovingkindness,

for ʜɪꜱ wonderful deeds for the children of men!

³²Let them exalt ʜɪᴍ also in the assembly of the people,

and praise ʜɪᴍ in the seat of the elders.

³³Hᴇ turns rivers into a desert,

water springs into a thirsty ground,

³⁴and a fruitful land into a salt waste,

for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

³⁵Hᴇ turns a desert into a pool of water,

and a dry land into water springs.

³⁶There ʜᴇ makes the hungry live,

that they may prepare a city to live in,

³⁷sow fields, plant vineyards,

and reap the fruits of increase.

³⁸Hᴇ blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly.

Hᴇ doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

³⁹Again, they are diminished and bowed down

through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

⁴⁰Hᴇ pours contempt on princes,

and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

⁴¹Yet ʜᴇ lifts the needy out of their affliction,

and increases their families like a flock.

⁴²The upright will see it, and be glad.

All the wicked will shut their mouths.

⁴³Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things.

They will consider the lovingkindnesses of YHWH.