Psalm 107
English translation got from website: https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo
- Give thanks to the Lord because He is good, for His kindness is eternal.
- Those redeemed by the Lord shall say it, those whom He redeemed from the hands of an oppressor.
- And gathered them from lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea.
- They strayed in the desert, on a road of desolation; they did not find an inhabited city.
- Hungry as well as thirsty, their soul enwraps itself in them.
- And they cried out to the Lord in their distress; from their straits He rescued them.
- And He led them on a straight road, to go to an inhabited city.
- They shall give thanks to the Lord for His kindness, and for His wonders to the children of men.
- For He sated a yearning soul, and a hungry soul He filled with goodness.
- Those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, prisoners of affliction and iron.
- For they rebelled against the words of God, and they scorned the counsel of the Most High.
- And He humbled their heart with toil; they stumbled with no one to help them.
- And they cried out to the Lord in their distress; from their straits He saved them.
- He took them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and He broke open their bonds.
- They shall give thanks to the Lord for His kindness, and for His wonders to the children of men.
- For He broke copper doors, and cut off iron bars.
- Fools, because of the way of their transgression and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
- Their soul despises all food, and they reach the portals of death.
- And they cried out to the Lord in their distress; from their straits He saved them.
- He sent His word and healed them, and extricated them from their pit.
- They shall give thanks to the Lord for His kindness, and for His wonders to the children of men.
- And they shall slaughter sacrifices of thanksgiving, and they shall tell of His deeds with song.
- Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do work in mighty waters.
- They saw the deeds of the Lord and His wonders in the deep.
- He spoke, and He set up a tempest, and it raised its waves.
- They went up to the heavens, they came down to the depths; their soul melted with trouble.
- They were frightened and staggered like a drunkard, and all their wisdom was destroyed.
- They cried out to the Lord from their distress, that He take them out of their straits.
- The tempest He had set up [settled] into a calm, and their waves were stilled.
- They rejoiced that they were stilled, and He led them to the region of their desire.
- They shall thank the Lord for His kindness, and for His wonders to the children of men.
- And they shall exalt Him in an assembly of people, and in a sitting of elders, praise Him.
- He makes rivers into a desert, and springs of water into an arid place;
- A fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
- He makes a desert into a pool of water, and a wasteland into springs of water.
- And He settles the hungry there, and they establish an inhabited city.
- And they sow fields and plant vineyards, which produce fruits and grain.
- And He blessed them, and they multiplied exceedingly, and their animals did not decrease.
- Whereas they were few and they sank down from dominion, trouble, and sorrow.
- He pours contempt upon princes and leads them astray in a wasteland where there is no path.
- And He strengthened the needy from poverty and made him families like flocks.
- The upright see and rejoice, and all injustice shuts its mouth.
- He who is wise will keep these in mind, and they will ponder the kind deeds of the Lord.