✧1Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. ✧2Let the redeemed by the LORD say so, whom he 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 the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. ✧7He led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in. ✧8Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! ✧9
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For he satisfies the longing soul. He 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 he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.
✧13Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
✧14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.
✧15Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
✧16For he 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 the LORD in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses.
✧20He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.
✧21Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
✧22Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.
✧23Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters,
✧24these see the LORD’s deeds, and his wonders in the deep.
✧25For he 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 the LORD in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.
✧29He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.
✧30Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.
✧31Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men!
✧32Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders.
✧33He 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.
✧35He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.
✧36There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,
✧37sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
✧38He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
✧39Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
✧40He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
✧41Yet he 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 loving kindnesses of the LORD.