Chapter 106

  Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.  

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  Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries.  

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  From the rising and the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea.  

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  They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.  

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  They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.  

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  And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered them out of their distresses.  

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  And he led them into the right way: that they might go to a city of habitation.  

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  Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men.  

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  For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry soul with good things.  

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  Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.  

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  Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:  

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  And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened, and their was none to help them.  

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  Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses.  

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  And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder.  

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  Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.  

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  Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst the iron bars.  

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  He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices.  

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  Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.  

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  And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses.  

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  He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions.  

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  Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men.  

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  And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his works with joy.  

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  They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great waters:  

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  These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.  

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  He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves thereof were lifted up.  

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  They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils.  

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  They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.  

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  And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses.  

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  And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still.  

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  And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them to the haven which they wished for.  

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  Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.  

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  And let them exalt him in the church of the people: and praise him in the chair of the ancients.  

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  He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of water into dry ground:  

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  A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.  

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  He hath turned a wilderness into pools of water, and a dry land into water springs.  

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  And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their habitation.  

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  And they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded fruit of birth.  

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  And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.  

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  Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.  

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  Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.  

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  And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep.  

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  The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop their mouth.  

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  Who is wise, and will keep these things: and will understand the mercies of the Lord?  

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