Psalms 107

Psalms 107

¹Give thanks to Yahweh, *

for he is good,

for his loving kindness endures forever.

²Let the redeemed by Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh for his loving kindness,

for his wonderful works 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 none to help.

¹³Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble,

and he saved them out of their distresses.

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

and broke their bonds in sunder.

¹⁵Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,

for his wonderful works to the children of men!

¹⁶For he has broken the gates of brass,

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 Yahweh in their trouble,

he saves them out of their distresses.

²⁰He sends his word, and heals them,

and delivers them from their graves.

²¹Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,

for his wonderful works to the children of men!

²²Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,

and declare his works with singing.

²³Those who go down to the sea in ships,

who do business in great waters;

²⁴These see Yahweh’s works,

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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh for his loving kindness,

for his wonderful works 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 Yahweh.