BOOK V

(Psalms 107-150)

Psalm 107

Thanksgiving for Deliverance from Many Troubles

¹O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
   for his steadfast love endures for ever.
²Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
   those he redeemed from trouble
³and gathered in from the lands,
   from the east and from the west,
   from the north and from the south.^*

⁴Some wandered in desert wastes,
   finding no way to an inhabited town;
⁵hungry and thirsty,
   their soul fainted within them.
⁶Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
   and he delivered them from their distress;
⁷he led them by a straight way,
   until they reached an inhabited town.
³³He turns rivers into a desert,
   springs of water into thirsty ground,
³⁴a fruitful land into a salty waste,
   because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
³⁵He turns a desert into pools of water,
   a parched land into springs of water.
³⁶And there he lets the hungry live,
   and they establish a town to live in;
³⁷they sow fields, and plant vineyards,
   and get a fruitful yield.