His Loving Kindness Endures Forever

1{106:1}Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

2{106:2}Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries.

3{106:3}From the rising and from the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea.

4{106:4}They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.

5{106:5}They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.

6{106:6}And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered them out of their distresses.

7{106:7}And he led them into the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

8{106:8}Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men.

9{106:9}For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry soul with good things.

10{106:10}Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.

11{106:11}Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:

12{106:12}And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened, and there was none to help them.

13{106:13}Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses.

14{106:14}And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder.

15{106:15}Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.

16{106:16}Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars.

17{106:17}He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices.

18{106:18}Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.

19{106:19}And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses.

20{106:20}He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions.

21{106:21}Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men.

22{106:22}And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his works with joy.

23{106:23}They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great waters:

24{106:24}These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

25{106:25}He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves thereof were lifted up.

26{106:26}They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils.

27{106:27}They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

28{106:28}And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses.

29{106:29}And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still.

30{106:30}And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them to the haven which they wished for.

31{106:31}Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.

32{106:32}And let them exalt him in the church of the people: and praise him in the chair of the ancients.

33{106:33}He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of waters into dry ground:

34{106:34}A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

35{106:35}He hath turned a wilderness into pools of waters, and a dry land into water springs.

36{106:36}And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their habitation.

37{106:37}And they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded fruit of birth.

38{106:38}And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.

39{106:39}Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.

40{106:40}Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.

41{106:41}And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep.

42{106:42}The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

43{106:43}Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the mercies of the Lord?