Psalm 107

¹O GIVE thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endurethfor ever.

²Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary;

³And gathered them 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 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 of habitation.

⁸Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, 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 labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

¹³Then they cried unto the LORD hi their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

¹⁵Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, 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 meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

²⁰He sendeth his word, and healeth them, and delivereth themfrom their destructions.

²¹Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, 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 the LORD, 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 heaven, 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 the LORD 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 be quiet: so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.

³¹Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, 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 minished 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 himfamilies like a flock.

⁴²The upright shall see it, and be glad; and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

⁴³Whoso is wise shall give heed to these things, and they shall consider the mercies of the LORD.