Psalm 107

¹O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

²Let those whose cause the Lord has taken up say so, his people whom he has taken out of the hands of their haters;

³Making them come together out of all the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

⁴They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

⁵Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

⁶Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles;

⁷Guiding them in the right way, so that they might come into the town of their resting-place.

⁸Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

⁹He gives its desire to the unresting soul, so that it is full of good things.

¹⁰Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

¹¹Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:

¹²So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper.

¹³Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles.

¹⁴He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.