{Psa 107, 111-114 **}
107:1 O give thanks to Jehovah. Because he is good, because his loving kindness is everlasting. 107:2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, 107:3 and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city of dwelling. 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
107:6 Then they cried to Jehovah in their trouble and he delivered them out of their distresses. 107:7 He also led them by a straight way, that they might go to a city of dwelling.
107:8 O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!
107:9 Because he satisfies the longing soul and he fills the hungry soul with good, 107:10 even those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron, 107:11 because they rebelled against the words of God and scorned the counsel of the Most High.
107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down and there was none to help.
107:13 Then they cried to Jehovah in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses. 107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their bonds apart.
107:15 O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!
107:16 Because he has broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron apart. 107:17 Fools are afflicted because of their transgression and because of their iniquities. 107:18 Their soul abhors all manner of food and they draw near to the gates of death.
107:19 Then they cry to Jehovah in their trouble and he saves them out of their distresses. 107:20 He sends his word and heals them and delivers them from their destructions.
107:21 O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men! 107:22 And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with singing.
107:23 Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters, 107:24 these men see the works of Jehovah and his wonders in the deep.
107:25 For he commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves of it. 107:26 They mountain up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.107:27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits' end.
107:28 Then they cry to Jehovah in their trouble and he brings them out of their distresses. 107:29 He makes the storm a calm, so that the waves of it are quiet. 107:30 Then they are glad because they are silent, so he brings them to their desired haven.
107:31 O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men! 107:32 Let them also exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the seat of the elders.
107:33 He turns rivers into a wilderness and water springs into a thirsty ground, 107:34 a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
107:35 He turns a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry land into water springs. 107:36 And he makes the hungry to dwell there, that they may prepare a city of dwelling, 107:37 and sow fields and plant vineyards and get fruits of increase.
107:38 He also blesses them, so that they are multiplied greatly and he does not allow their cattle to decrease.
107:39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble and sorrow. 107:40He pours contempt upon nobles and makes them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.
107:41 Yet he sets a needy man on high from affliction and makes him families like a flock. 107:42The upright will see it and be glad. And all unrighteousness will stop her mouth.
107:43 He who is wise will give heed to these things and they will consider the loving kindnesses of Jehovah.