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1Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His gracious love exists forever. | 1Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. |
2Let those who have been redeemed by the LORD declare it— those whom he redeemed from the power of the enemy, | 2Has the LORD redeemed you? Then speak out! Tell others he has redeemed you from your enemies. |
3those whom he gathered from other lands— from the east, west, north, and south. | 3For he has gathered the exiles from many lands, from east and west, from north and south. |
4They wandered in desolate wilderness; they found no road to a city where they could live. | 4Some wandered in the wilderness, lost and homeless. |
5Hungry and thirsty, their spirits failed. | 5Hungry and thirsty, they nearly died. |
6Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. | 6“LORD, help!” they cried in their trouble, and he rescued them from their distress. |
7He led them in a straight way to find a city where they could live. | 7He led them straight to safety, to a city where they could live. |
8Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love and his awesome deeds for mankind. | 8Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for the wonderful things he has done for them. |
9He has satisfied the one who thirsts, filling the hungry with what is good. | 9For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things. |
10Some sat in deepest darkness, shackled with cruel iron, | 10Some sat in darkness and deepest gloom, imprisoned in iron chains of misery. |
11because they had rebelled against the command of God, despising the advice of the Most High. | 11They rebelled against the words of God, scorning the counsel of the Most High. |
12He humbled them through suffering, as they stumbled without a helper. | 12That is why he broke them with hard labor; they fell, and no one was there to help them. |
13Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; he delivered them from their distress. | 13“LORD, help!” they cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. |
14And he brought them out from darkness and the shadow of death, shattering their chains. | 14He led them from the darkness and deepest gloom; he snapped their chains. |
15Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love, and for his awesome deeds to mankind. | 15Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for the wonderful things he has done for them. |
16For he shattered bronze gates and cut through iron bars. | 16For he broke down their prison gates of bronze; he cut apart their bars of iron. |
17Because of their rebellious ways, fools suffered for their iniquities. | 17Some were fools; they rebelled and suffered for their sins. |
18They loathed all food, and even reached the gates of death. | 18They couldn’t stand the thought of food, and they were knocking on death’s door. |
19Yet when they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, he delivered them from certain destruction. | 19“LORD, help!” they cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. |
20He issued his command and healed them; he delivered them from their destruction. | 20He sent out his word and healed them, snatching them from the door of death. |
21Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love, and for his awesome deeds for mankind. | 21Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for the wonderful things he has done for them. |
22Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and talk about his works with shouts of joy. | 22Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and sing joyfully about his glorious acts. |
23Those who go down to the sea in ships, who work in the great waters, | 23Some went off to sea in ships, plying the trade routes of the world. |
24witnessed the works of the LORD— his awesome deeds in the ocean's depth. | 24They, too, observed the LORD’s power in action, his impressive works on the deepest seas. |
25He spoke and stirred up a windstorm that made its waves surge. | 25He spoke, and the winds rose, stirring up the waves. |
26The people ascended skyward and descended to the depths, their courage melting away in their peril. | 26Their ships were tossed to the heavens and plunged again to the depths; the sailors cringed in terror. |
27They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, as all their wisdom became useless. | 27They reeled and staggered like drunkards and were at their wits’ end. |
28Yet when they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, the LORD brought them out of their distress. | 28“LORD, help!” they cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. |
29He calmed the storm and its waves quieted down. | 29He calmed the storm to a whisper and stilled the waves. |
30So they rejoiced that the waves became quiet, and he led them to their desired haven. | 30What a blessing was that stillness as he brought them safely into harbor! |
31Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love and for his awesome deeds on behalf of mankind. | 31Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for the wonderful things he has done for them. |
32Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the counsel of the elders. | 32Let them exalt him publicly before the congregation and before the leaders of the nation. |
33He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into dry ground, | 33He changes rivers into deserts, and springs of water into dry, thirsty land. |
34and a fruitful land into a salty waste, due to the wickedness of its inhabitants. | 34He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there. |
35He turns a desert into a pool of water, dry land into springs of water. | 35But he also turns deserts into pools of water, the dry land into springs of water. |
36There he settled the hungry, where they built a city to live in. | 36He brings the hungry to settle there and to build their cities. |
37They sowed fields and planted vineyards that yielded a productive harvest. | 37They sow their fields, plant their vineyards, and harvest their bumper crops. |
38Then he blessed them, and they became numerous; he multiplied their cattle. | 38How he blesses them! They raise large families there, and their herds of livestock increase. |
39But they became few in number, and humiliated by continued oppression, agony, and sorrow. | 39When they decrease in number and become impoverished through oppression, trouble, and sorrow, |
40Having poured contempt on their nobles, causing them to err aimlessly in the way. | 40the LORD pours contempt on their princes, causing them to wander in trackless wastelands. |
41Yet he lifted the needy from affliction and made them families like a flock. | 41But he rescues the poor from trouble and increases their families like flocks of sheep. |
42The upright see it and rejoice, but the mouth of an evil person is shut. | 42The godly will see these things and be glad, while the wicked are struck silent. |
43Let whoever is wise observe these things, that they may comprehend the gracious love of the LORD. | 43Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the LORD. |
The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1 Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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