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- "O give thanks unto the LORD, for He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever."
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- So let the redeemed of the LORD say, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary;
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- And gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea.
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- They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way;
they found no city of habitation.
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- Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
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- Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses.
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- And He led them by a straight way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
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- Let them give thanks unto the LORD for His mercy, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!
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- For He hath satisfied the longing soul, and the hungry soul He hath filled with good.
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- Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron -
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- Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High.
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- Therefore He humbled their heart with travail, they stumbled, and there was none to help -
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- They cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses.
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- He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.
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- Let them give thanks unto the LORD for His mercy, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!
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- For He hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
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- Crazed because of the way of their transgression, and afflicted because of their iniquities -
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- Their soul abhorred all manner of food, and they drew near unto the gates of death -
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- They cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses;
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- He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from their graves.
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- Let them give thanks unto the LORD for His mercy, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!
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- And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare His works with singing.
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- They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters -
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- These saw the works of the LORD, and His wonders in the deep;
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- For He commanded, and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves thereof;
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- They mounted up to the heaven, they went down to the deeps;
their soul melted away because of trouble;
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- They reeled to and fro, and staggered like a drunken man, and all their wisdom was swallowed up -
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- They cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distresses.
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- He made the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof were still.
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- Then were they glad because they were quiet, and He led them unto their desired haven.
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- Let them give thanks unto the LORD for His mercy, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!
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- Let them exalt Him also in the assembly of the people, and praise Him in the seat of the elders.
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- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and watersprings into a thirsty ground;
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- A fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
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- He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into watersprings.
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- And there He maketh the hungry to dwell, and they establish a city of habitation;
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- And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits of increase.
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- He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
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- Again, they are minished and dwindle away through oppression of evil and sorrow.
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- He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.
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- Yet setteth He the needy on high from affliction, and maketh his families like a flock.
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- The upright see it, and are glad;
and all iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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- Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them consider the mercies of the LORD.
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