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That they might go to a city of habitation.

⁸Let them give thanks unto the Lord for His mercy,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

⁹For He hath satisfied the longing soul,

And the hungry soul He hath filled with good.

 

¹⁰Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,

Being bound in affliction and iron—

¹¹Because they rebelled against the words of God,

And contemned the counsel of the Most High.

¹²Therefore He humbled their heart with travail,

They stumbled, and there was none to help—

¹³They cried unto the Lord in their trouble,

And He saved them out of their distresses.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,

And broke their bands in sunder. ¹⁵Let them give thanks unto the Lord for His mercy,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

¹⁶For He hath broken the gates of brass,

And cut the bars of iron in sunder.

 

¹⁷Crazed because of the way of their transgression,

And afflicted because of their iniquities—

¹⁸Their soul abhorred all manner of food,

And they drew near unto the gates of death—

¹⁹They cried unto the Lord in their trouble,

And He saved them out of their distresses;

²⁰He sent His word, and healed them,

And delivered them from their graves.

²¹Let them give thanks unto the Lord for His mercy,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

²²And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,

And declare His works with singing.

 

²³They that go down to the sea in ships,

That do business in great waters—

²⁴These saw the works of the Lord,

And His wonders in the deep;

²⁵For He commanded, and raised the stormy wind,

Which lifted up the waves thereof;

²⁶They mounted up to the heaven, they went down to the deeps;

Their soul melted away because of trouble;

²⁷They reeled to and fro, and staggered like a drunken man,

And all their wisdom was swallowed up—

²⁸They cried unto the Lord in their trouble,

And He brought them out of their distresses.

²⁹He made the storm a calm,

So that the waves thereof were still.

³⁰Then were they glad because they were quiet,

And He led them unto their desired haven.

³¹Let them give thanks unto the Lord for His mercy,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

³²Let them exalt Him also in the assembly of the people,

And praise Him in the seat of the elders.

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