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- O GIVE thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever!
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- Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary,
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- And gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the [Red] Sea in the south.
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- Some wandered in the wilderness in a solitary desert track; they found no city for habitation.
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- Hungry and thirsty, they fainted; their lives were near to being extinguished.
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- Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses.
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- He led them forth by the straight and right way, that they might go to a city where they could establish their homes.
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- Oh, that men would praise [and confess to] the Lord for His goodness and loving-kindness and His wonderful works to the children of men!
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- For He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with good.
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- Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and in irons, [Luke 1:79.]
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- Because they had rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High.
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- Therefore He bowed down their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled and fell down, and there was none to help.
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- Then they cried to the Lord 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 apart the bonds that held them. [Ps. 68:6; Acts 12:7; 16:26.]
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- Oh, that men would praise [and confess to] the Lord for His goodness and loving-kindness and His wonderful works to the children of men!
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- For He has broken the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron apart.
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- Some are fools [made ill] because of the way of their transgressions and are afflicted because of their iniquities.
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- They loathe every kind of food, and they draw near to the gates of death.
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- Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivers them out of their distresses.
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- He sends forth His word and heals them and rescues them from the pit and destruction. [II Kings 20:4, 5; Matt. 8:8.]
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- Oh, that men would praise [and confess to] the Lord for His goodness and loving-kindness and His wonderful works to the children of men! [Heb. 13:15.]
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- And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and rehearse His deeds with shouts of joy and singing!
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- Some go down to the sea and travel over it in ships to do business in great waters;
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- These see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep.
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- For He commands and raises up the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves of the sea.
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- [Those aboard] mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the deeps; their courage melts away because of their plight.
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- They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits' end [all their wisdom has come to nothing].
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- Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble, and He brings them out of their distresses.
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- He hushes the storm to a calm and to a gentle whisper, so that the waves of the sea are still. [Ps. 89:9; Matt. 8:26.]
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- Then the men are glad because of the calm, and He brings them to their desired haven.
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- Oh, that men would praise [and confess to] the Lord for His goodness and loving-kindness and His wonderful 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 company of the elders.
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- He turns rivers into a wilderness, water springs into a thirsty ground, [I Kings 17:1, 7.]
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- A fruitful land into a barren, salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it. [Gen. 13:10; 14:3; 19:25.]
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- He turns a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry ground into water springs; [Isa. 41:18.]
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- And there He makes the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation,
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- And sow fields, and plant vineyards which yield fruits of increase.
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- He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and allows not their cattle to decrease.
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- When they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,
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- He pours contempt upon princes and causes them to wander in waste places where there is no road.
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- Yet He raises the poor and needy from affliction and makes their families like a flock.
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- The upright shall see it and be glad, but all iniquity shall shut its mouth.
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- Whoso is wise [if there be any truly wise] will observe and heed these things; and they will diligently consider the mercy and loving-kindness of the Lord.
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