Psalm 107

Psalm 107

¹O give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good;

For his lovingkindness endureth for ever.

²Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so,

Whom he hath 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 of habitation.

⁵Hungry and thirsty,

Their soul fainted in them.

⁶Then they cried unto Jehovah 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 of habitation.

⁸Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness,

And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

⁹For he satisfieth the longing soul,

And the hungry soul he filleth with good.

¹⁰Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,

Being bound in affliction and iron,

¹¹Because they rebelled against the words of God,

And contemned the counsel of the Most High:

¹²Therefore he brought down their heart with labor;

They fell down, and there was none to help.

¹³Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble,

And he saved them out of their distresses.

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

And brake their bonds in sunder.

¹⁵Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness,

And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

¹⁶For he hath broken the gates of brass,

And cut the bars of iron in sunder.

¹⁷Fools because of their transgression,

And because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

¹⁸Their soul abhorreth all manner of food;

And they draw near unto the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble,

And he saveth them out of their distresses.

²⁰He sendeth his word, and healeth them,

And delivereth them from their destructions.

²¹Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness,

And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

²²And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,

And declare his works with singing.

²³They that go down to the sea in ships,

That do business in great waters;

²⁴These see the works of Jehovah,

And his wonders in the deep.

²⁵For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind,

Which lifteth up the waves thereof.

²⁶They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths:

Their soul melteth away because of trouble.

²⁷They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man,

And are at their wits’ end.

²⁸Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble,

And he bringeth them out of their distresses.

²⁹He maketh the storm a calm,

So that the waves thereof are still.

³⁰Then are they glad because they are quiet;

So he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

³¹Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness,

And for his wonderful works to 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 turneth rivers into a wilderness,

And watersprings into a thirsty ground;

³⁴A fruitful land into a salt desert,

For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

³⁵He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water,

And a dry land into watersprings.

³⁶And there he maketh the hungry to dwell,

That they may prepare a city of habitation,

³⁷And sow fields, and plant vineyards,

And get them fruits of increase.

³⁸He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly;

And he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

³⁹Again, they are diminished and bowed down

Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

⁴⁰He poureth contempt upon princes,

And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

⁴¹Yet setteth he the needy on high from affliction,

And maketh him families like a flock.

⁴²The upright shall see it, and be glad;

And all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

⁴³Whoso is wise will give heed to these things;

And they will consider the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah.