Ps 107
0 Psalm 107
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O give thanks to YHWH; For he is good; For his lovingkindness [endures] for ever.
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Let the redeemed of YHWH say [so], Whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
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And gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and
from the south.
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They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.
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Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
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Then they cried to YHWH in their trouble, And he delivered them out of their distresses,
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He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city of habitation.
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Oh that men would praise YHWH for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works
to the children of men!
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For he satisfies the longing soul, And the hungry soul he fills with good.
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Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and
iron,
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Because they rebelled against the words of God, And contemned the counsel of the Most
High:
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Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none
to help.
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Then they cried to YHWH in their trouble, And he saved them out of their distresses.
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He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And brake their bonds in
sunder.
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Oh that men would praise YHWH for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works
to the children of men!
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For he has broken the gates of brass, And cut the bars of iron in sunder.
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Fools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
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Their soul abhors all manner of food; And they draw near to the gates of death.
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Then they cry to YHWH in their trouble, And he saves them out of their distresses.
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He sends his word, and heals them, And delivers [them] from their destructions.
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Oh that men would praise YHWH for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works
to the children of men!
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And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, And declare his works with singing.
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They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters;
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These see the works of YHWH, And his wonders in the deep.
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For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, Which lifts up its waves.
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They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths: Their soul melts
away because of trouble.
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They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits` end.
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Then they cry to YHWH in their trouble, And he brings them out of their distresses.
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He makes the storm a calm, So that its waves are still.
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Then are they glad because they are quiet; So he brings them to their desired haven.
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Oh that men would praise YHWH for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works
to the children of men!
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Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, And praise him in the seat
of the elders.
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He turns rivers into a wilderness, And watersprings into a thirsty ground;
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A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
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He turns a wilderness into a pool of water, And a dry land into watersprings.
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And there he makes the hungry to dwell, That they may prepare a city of habitation,
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And sow fields, and plant vineyards, And get them fruits of increase.
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He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; And he suffers not
their cattle to decrease.
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Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
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He pours contempt upon princes, And causes them to wander in the waste, where there
is no way.
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Yet sets he the needy on high from affliction, And makes [him] families like a flock.
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The upright shall see it, and be glad; And all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
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Whoso is wise will give heed to these things; And they will consider the lovingkindnesses
of YHWH.