Psalms 107

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Al eluia! Give thanks to Yahweh for he is good, his faithful love lasts for ever.	1 A Canticle Psalm, of David himself.
2 So let them say whom Yahweh redeemed, whom he redeemed from the power of their enemies,	2 My heart is prepared, O God, my heart is prepared. I will sing songs, and I will sing psalms in my glory.
3 bringing them back from foreign lands, from east and west, north and south.	3 Rise up, my glory. Rise up, Psalter and harp. I will arise in early morning.
4 They were wandering in the desert, in the wastelands, could find no way to an inhabited city;	4 I will confess to you, O Lord, among the peoples. And I will sing psalms to you among the nations.
5 they were hungry and thirsty, their life was ebbing away.	5 For your mercy is great, beyond the heavens, and your truth, even to the clouds.
6 They cried out to Yahweh in their distress, he rescued them from their plight,	6 Be exalted, O God, beyond the heavens, and your glory, beyond all the earth,
7 he set them on the road, straight to an inhabited city.	7 so that your beloved may be freed. Save with your right hand, and heed me.
8 Let them thank Yahweh for his faithful love, for his wonders for the children of Adam!	8 God has spoken in his holiness. I will exult, and I will divide Shechem, and I will divide by measure the steep valley of tabernacles.
9 He has fed the hungry to their hearts' content, filled the starving with good things.	9 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the supporter of my head. Judah is my king.
10 Sojourners in gloom and shadow dark as death, fettered in misery and chains,	10 Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. I will extend my shoe in Idumea; the foreigners have become my friends.
11 for defying the orders of Yahweh, for scorning the plan of the Most High-	11 Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will lead me, even into Idumea?
12 he subdued their spirit by hard labour; if they fel there was no one to help.	12 Will not you, O God, who had rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies?
13 They cried out to Yahweh in their distress, he rescued them from their plight,	13 Grant us help from tribulation, for vain is the help of man.
14 he brought them out from gloom and shadow dark as death, and shattered their chains.	14 In God, we will act virtuously, and he will bring our enemies to nothing.
15 Let them thank Yahweh for his faithful love, for his wonders for the children of Adam!
16 He broke open gates of bronze and smashed iron bars.
17 Fools for their rebellious ways, wretched because of their sins,
18 finding all food repugnant, brought close to the gates of death-
19 they cried out to Yahweh in their distress; he rescued them from their plight,
20 he sent out his word and cured them, and rescued their life from the abyss.
21 Let them thank Yahweh for his faithful love, for his wonders for the children of Adam!
22 Let them offer thanksgiving sacrifices, and recount with shouts of joy what he has done!
23 Voyagers on the sea in ships, plying their trade on the great ocean,
24 have seen the works of Yahweh, his wonders in the deep.
25 By his word he raised a storm-wind, lashing up towering waves.
26 Up to the sky then down to the depths! Their stomachs were turned to water;
27 they staggered and reeled like drunkards, and al their skill went under.
28 They cried out to Yahweh in their distress, he rescued them from their plight,
29 he reduced the storm to a calm, and al the waters subsided,
30 and he brought them, overjoyed at the stillness, to the port where they were bound.
31 Let them thank Yahweh for his faithful love, for his wonders for the children of Adam!
32 Let them extol him in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the council of elders.
33 He has turned rivers into desert, bubbling springs into arid ground,
34 fertile country into salt-flats, because the people living there were evil.
35 But he has turned desert into stretches of water, arid ground into bubbling springs,
36 and has given the hungry a home, where they have built themselves a city.
37 There they sow fields and plant vines, and reap a harvest of their produce.
38 He blesses them and their numbers increase, he keeps their cattle at full strength.
39 Their numbers had fal en, they had grown weak, under pressure of disaster and hardship;
40 he covered princes in contempt, left them to wander in trackless wastes.
41 But the needy he raises from their misery, makes their families as numerous as sheep.
42 At the sight the honest rejoice, and the wicked have nothing to say.
43 Who is wise? Such a one should take this to heart, and come to understand Yahweh's faithful love.