Chapter 107

  Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.  

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  Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the oppressor,  

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  And gathered out of the countries, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea.  

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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 unto Jehovah in their trouble, [and] he delivered them out of their distresses,  

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  And he led them forth by a right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.  

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  Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;  

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  For he hath satisfied the longing soul and filled the hungry soul with good.  

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  Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,  

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  Because they had rebelled against the words of ùGod, and had despised the counsel of the Most High; ...  

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  And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled, and there was none to help:  

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  Then they cried unto Jehovah 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 broke their bands in sunder.  

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  Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;  

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  For he hath broken the gates of bronze, and cut asunder the bars of iron.  

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  Fools, because of their way of transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted;  

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  Their soul abhorreth all manner of food, and they draw near unto the gates of death:  

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  Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, [and] he saveth them out of their distresses;  

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

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  Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men,  

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  And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works in joyful song.  

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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 Jehovah, and his wonders in the deep.  

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  For he speaketh, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof:  

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  They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble;  

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  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:  

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  Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses;  

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  He maketh the storm a calm, and the waves thereof are still:  

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  And they rejoice because they are quiet; and he bringeth them unto their desired haven.  

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  Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;  

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  Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the session of the elders.  

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  He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;  

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  A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.  

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  He maketh the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs;  

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  And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, and they establish a city of habitation;  

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  And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits of increase;  

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  And he blesseth them, so that they are multiplied greatly; and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.  

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  And they are diminished and brought low, through oppression, adversity, and sorrow:  

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  He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;  

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  But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh [him] families like flocks.  

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  The upright shall see it, and rejoice; and all unrighteousness shall stop its mouth.  

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  Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them understand the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah.  

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