Thanksgiving to Yahweh for His of Deliverance

• for his loyal love is forever.
• 2 Let the redeemed of Yahweh declare[fn] it, those whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy
• 3 and gathered from the lands, from east and from west, from north and from south.[fn]
• 4 They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert. They could find no way[fn] to a city to inhabit.
• 5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul grew faint within them.
• 6 Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble. He delivered them from their distresses
• 7 and led them by a straight way to get to a city to inhabit.
• 8 Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love, and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind,
• 9 for he satisfies the longing soul,[fn] and the hungry soul he fills with good.
• 10 Those who sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron—
• 11 because they rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High,
• 12 he therefore humbled their heart with trouble. They stumbled and there was no helper.
• 13 Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble; he saved them from their distresses.
• 14 He brought them out of darkness and gloom, and tore off their bonds.
• 15 Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind,
• 16 for he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts through the bars of iron.
• 17 Fools, because of their rebellious way and their iniquities, were afflicted.
• 18 Their soul abhorred all food, and they approached the gates of death.
• 19 Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble. He saved them from their distresses.
• 20 He sent his word and healed them, and he delivered them from their pits.[fn]
• 21 Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love, and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind,
• 22 and let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his works with rejoicing.
• 23 Those who went down to the sea into ships, doing business on the high seas ,[fn]
• 24 they saw the works of Yahweh, and his wonderful deeds in the deep.
• 25 For he spoke and raised up a stormy wind, and it whipped up its waves.
• 26 They rose to the heavens; they plunged to the depths. Their soul melted in their calamity.
• 27 They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and they were at their wits’ end .[fn]
• 28 Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distresses.
• 29 He made the storm be still and their waves became calm.
• 30 Then they were glad because they grew silent, so he guided them to their desired harbor.
• 31 Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind,
• 32 and let them exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
• 33 He turns rivers into a wilderness and springs of water into thirsty ground,
• 34 a fruitful land into a salty place, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
• 35 He turns a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry land into springs of water.
• 36 And he settles the hungry there, so that they may establish a city to inhabit,
• 37 and sow fields and plant vineyards, that they may yield fruit at harvest .[fn]
• 38 And he blesses them and they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle become few.
• 39 When they become few and they are bent down from the oppression of calamity and grief,
• 40 he pours contempt on princes and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
• 41 But he protects[fn] the needy from misery, and he makes their families like a flock.
• 42 The upright see it and are glad, and all wickedness shuts its mouth.
• 43 Whoever is wise, then let him observe these things, and let them consider Yahweh’s acts of loyal love.