¹Praise the Lord,

For he is good,

For his kindness is age-abiding.

²Let the Lord's redeemed speak out

– Those whom he redeemed from the grip of the adversary

³And gathered from the various countries,

From the east and from the west,

And from the north and from the south.

⁴They wandered in the desert

– A journey through wasteland.

They did not find an inhabitable city.

⁵Hungry and thirsty too,

Their willpower in them flagged.

⁶Then they cried out to the Lord in their adversity.

He delivered them from their predicament,

⁷And he guided their steps

On a way that was right,

So as to arrive at an inhabitable city.

⁸Let them give thanks to the Lord for his kindness

And for his wonders to the sons of Adam,

⁹For he satiates a person pacing up and down

And fills a hungry person with goodness.

¹⁰As for those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death

– Prisoners in affliction and irons –

¹¹Because they rebelled against the words of God

And despised the counsel of the Most High,

¹²He brought their heart down with toil.

They stumbled,

And there was no-one to help.

¹³When they shouted out to the Lord in their adversity,

He saved them from their predicament.

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

And he unfastened their bonds.

¹⁵Let them give thanks to the Lord for his kindness

And for his wonders to the sons of Adam.

¹⁶For he has shivered copper doors in pieces

And shattered iron bolts.

¹⁷Fools, because of their transgression,

And because of their iniquities,

Suffer affliction.

¹⁸Their very being abhors all food,

And they have reached the gates of death.

¹⁹When they shouted out to the Lord in their adversity,

He saved them from their predicament.

²⁰He sends his word and heals them,

And delivers them from their demise.

²¹Let them give thanks to the Lord for his kindness

And for his wonders to the sons of Adam.

²²And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,

And let them relate his deeds

With shouting for joy.

²³Those who go down to the sea in ships

To do business across great waters

²⁴Are who have seen the Lord's works

And his wonders in the deep.

²⁵For he spoke and set up a stormwind,

And it lifted up its waves.

²⁶They rise to heaven,

They descend to the depths;

Their mind despairs in trouble.

²⁷They reel and they stagger like a drunkard;

All their wisdom evaporates.

²⁸Then they cried out to the Lord in their adversity,

And he delivered them from their predicament.

²⁹He brought the storm to a standstill,

And its waves became quiet.

³⁰Then they were pleased that they had abated,

And he conducted them to the harbour of their choice.

³¹Let them give thanks to the Lord for his kindness

And for his wonders to the sons of Adam.

³²And may they exalt him in the convocation of the people

And praise him in the session of the elders.

³³He turns rivers into a desert,

And water-sources into thirsty land,

³⁴And fruitful land into a salty landscape,

On account of the evil of those who dwell in it.

³⁵He makes the desert a pool of water,

And the arid land sources of water.

³⁶Then he housed those who were hungry there,

And they established an inhabitable city.

³⁷Then they sowed the fields and planted vineyards,

Which yielded a fruitful crop.

³⁸Then he blessed them, and they increased greatly,

And he did not let their cattle become few.

³⁹But they decreased and were brought low,

Owing to oppression, harm and grief.

⁴⁰He poured out contempt on nobles,

And he made them wander in a desolate place

Where there is no trail.

⁴¹But he lifted the poor man out of his affliction,

And he appointed him families like a flock.

⁴²The upright will see it and rejoice,

And all injustice will shut its mouth.

⁴³Whoever is wise will keep these things,

And they will have understanding of the Lord's kindness.