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