📖 Psalms 107
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Book 5(Psalms 107-150) Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, and his loyal love endures!
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Let those delivered by the LORD speak out, those whom he delivered from the power of the enemy,
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and gathered from foreign lands, from east and west, from north and south.
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They wandered through the wilderness, in a wasteland; they found no road to a city in which to live.
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They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.
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They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.
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He led them on a level road, that they might find a city in which to live.
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Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!
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For he has satisfied those who thirst, and those who hunger he has filled with food.
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They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,
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because they had rebelled against God’s commands, and rejected the instructions of the Most High.
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So he used suffering to humble them; they stumbled and no one helped them up.
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They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.
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He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles.
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Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!
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For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.
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They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, and suffered because of their sins.
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They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death.
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They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.
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He sent them an assuring word and healed them; he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped.
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Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!
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Let them present thank offerings, and loudly proclaim what he has done!
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Some traveled on the sea in ships, and carried cargo over the vast waters.
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They witnessed the acts of the LORD, his amazing feats on the deep water.
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He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea.
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They reached up to the sky, then dropped into the depths. The sailors’ strength left them because the danger was so great.
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They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.
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They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.
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He calmed the storm, and the waves grew silent.
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The sailors rejoiced because the waves grew quiet, and he led them to the harbor they desired.
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Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!
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Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people! Let them praise him in the place where the leaders preside!
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He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,
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and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
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As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.
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He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live.
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They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.
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He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.
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As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.
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He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.
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Yet he protected the needy from oppression, and cared for his families like a flock of sheep.
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When the godly see this, they rejoice, and every sinner shuts his mouth.
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Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things! Let them consider the LORD’s acts of loyal love!