Psalmen 107

1. ¹O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
2. ²Let those whose cause the Lord has taken up say so, his people whom he has taken out of the hands of their haters;
3. ³Making them come together out of all the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
4. ⁴They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.
5. ⁵Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.
6. ⁶Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles;
7. ⁷Guiding them in the right way, so that they might come into the town of their resting-place.
8. ⁸Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!
9. ⁹He gives its desire to the unresting soul, so that it is full of good things.
10. ¹⁰Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
11. ¹¹Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:
12. ¹²So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper.
13. ¹³Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles.
14. ¹⁴He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.
15. ¹⁵Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!
16. ¹⁶The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.
17. ¹⁷Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;
18. ¹⁸They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.
19. ¹⁹Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.
20. ²⁰He sent his word and made them well, and kept them safe from the underworld.
21. ²¹Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!
22. ²²Let them make offerings of praise, giving news of his works with cries of joy.
23. ²³Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in the great waters;
24. ²⁴They see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
25. ²⁵For at his word comes up the storm-wind, lifting high the waves.
26. ²⁶The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.
27. ²⁷They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.
28. ²⁸Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.
29. ²⁹He makes the storm into a calm, so that the waves are at peace.
30. ³⁰Then they are glad, because the sea is quiet, and he takes them to the harbour of their desire.
31. ³¹Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!
32. ³²Let them give glory to him in the meeting of the people, and praise among the chiefs.
33. ³³He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;
34. ³⁴He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
35. ³⁵He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.
36. ³⁶And there he gives the poor a resting-place, so that they may make themselves a town;
37. ³⁷And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.
38. ³⁸He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.
39. ³⁹And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,
40. ⁴⁰He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.
41. ⁴¹But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock.
42. ⁴²The upright see it and are glad: the mouth of the sinner is stopped.
43. ⁴³Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.

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