Psalms 106

¹ GGive glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

² Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries.

³ From the rising and from the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea.

⁴ They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.

⁵ They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.

⁶ And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered them out of their distresses.

⁷ And he led them into the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

⁸ Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men.

⁹ For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry soul with good things.

¹⁰ Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.

¹¹ Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:

¹² And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened, and there was none to help them.

¹³ Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses.

¹⁴ And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder.

¹⁵ Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.

¹⁶ Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars.

¹⁷ He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices.

¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.

¹⁹ And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses.

²⁰ He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions.

²¹ Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men.

²² And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his works with joy.

²³ They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great waters:

²⁴ These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

²⁵ He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves thereof were lifted up.

²⁶ They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils.

²⁷ They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

²⁸ And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses.

²⁹ And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still.

³⁰ And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them to the haven which they wished for.

³¹ Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.

³² And let them exalt him in the church of the people: and praise him in the chair of the ancients.

³³ He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of waters into dry ground:

³⁴ A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

³⁵ He hath turned a wilderness into pools of waters, and a dry land into water springs.

³⁶ And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their habitation.

³⁷ And they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded fruit of birth.

³⁸ And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.

³⁹ Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.

⁴⁰ Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.

⁴¹ And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep.

⁴² The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

⁴³ Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the mercies of the Lord?