Psalms 106

¹Alleluia. Confess ye to our Lord, because he is good: because his mercy is for ever.

²Let them say that are redeemed of our Lord, whom he redeemed out of the hand of the enemy: and out of the countries he gathered them:

³From the rising of the sun, and the going down: from the north, and the sea.

⁴They wandered in the wilderness, in a place without water: the way of city for habitation they found not.

⁵Hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.

⁶And they cried to our Lord when they were in tribulation: and he delivered them out of their necessities.

⁷And he conducted them into the right way: to go into a city of habitation.

⁸Let the mercies of our Lord confess to him: and his marvelous works to the children of men.

⁹Because he hath filled the empty soul: and the hungry soul he hath filled with good things.

¹⁰Them that sat in darkness, and in the shadow of death: bound in neediness, and iron.

¹¹Because they exasperated the words of God: and they provoked the counsel of the Highest.

¹²And their heart was humbled in labours: they were weakened, neither was there any to help.

¹³And they cried to our Lord when they were in tribulation: and he delivered them out of their necessities.

¹⁴And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death: and brake their bonds asunder.

¹⁵Let the mercies of our Lord confess to him: & his marvelous works to the children of men.

¹⁶Because he hath destroyed the gates of brass; and the bars of iron he hath broken.

¹⁷He hath received them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were humbled for their injustices.

¹⁸Their soul did abhor all meat: & they approached even to the gates of death.

¹⁹And they cried to our Lord when they were in tribulation: and he delivered them out of their necessities.

²⁰He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them out of their destructions.

²¹Let the mercies of our Lord confess to him: & his marvelous works to the children of men.

²²And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: & shew forth his works in exultation.

²³They that go down into the sea in ships, making traffic in the great waters.

²⁴They have seen the works of our Lord, and his marvelous things in the depth.

²⁵He said, and the blast of the storm stood: and the waves thereof were exalted.

²⁶They ascend even to the heavens, and they descend even to the depths: their soul pined away in evils.

²⁷They were troubled, and were moved as a drunken man: and all their wisdom was devoured.

²⁸And they cried to our Lord when they were in tribulation, and he brought them out of their necessities.

²⁹And he turned his storm into calm: & the waves thereof were quiet.

³⁰And they rejoiced because they were quiet: and he conducted them into the haven of their will.

³¹Let the mercies of our Lord confess to him: and his marvelous works to the children of men.

³²And let them exalt him in the Church of the people: and the chair of the ancients let them praise him.

³³He turned the rivers into a desert: and the issues of waters into dryness.

³⁴The fruitful land into a salt ground, for the malice of them that inhabit it.

³⁵He turned the desert into pools of waters: and the land without water into issues of waters.

³⁶And he placed the hungry there, and they built a city of habitation.

³⁷And they sowed fields and planted vineyards: and they made fruit of nativity.

³⁸And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their beasts he lessened not.

³⁹And they were made few: and were vexed by the tribulation of evils, and with sorrow.

⁴⁰Contempt was poured out upon Princes: and he made them wander where was no way, and not in the way.

⁴¹And he did help the poor out of poverty: and made families as sheep.

⁴²The just shall see, and shall rejoice: & all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

⁴³Who is wise and will keep these things? And will understand the mercies of our Lord?