✧Give 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! ✧9For 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.