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- Give ye thanks unto Jehovah;
for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.
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- Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the oppressor,
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- And gathered out of the countries, 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 Jehovah in their trouble, [and] he delivered them out of their distresses,
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- And he led them forth by a right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
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- Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;
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- For he hath satisfied the longing soul and filled the hungry soul with good.
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- Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,
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- Because they had rebelled against the words of God, and had despised the counsel of the Most High;
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- And he bowed down their heart with labour;
they stumbled, and there was none to help:
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- Then they cried unto Jehovah 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 Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;
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- For he hath broken the gates of bronze, and cut asunder the bars of iron.
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- Fools, because of their way of transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted;
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- Their soul abhorreth all manner of food, and they draw near unto the gates of death:
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- Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, [and] he saveth them out of their distresses;
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- He sendeth his word, and healeth them, and delivereth them from their destructions.
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- Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men,
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- And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works in joyful song.
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- They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters,
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- These see the works of Jehovah, and his wonders in the deep.
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- For he speaketh, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof:
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- They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the depths;
their soul is melted because of trouble;
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- They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:
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- Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses;
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- He maketh the storm a calm, and the waves thereof are still:
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- And they rejoice because they are quiet;
and he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
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- Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;
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- Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the session of the elders.
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- He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;
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- A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
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- He maketh the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs;
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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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- And he blesseth them, so that they are multiplied greatly;
and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
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- And they are diminished and brought low, through oppression, adversity, and sorrow:
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- He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;
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- But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh [him] families like flocks.
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- The upright shall see it, and rejoice;
and all unrighteousness shall stop its mouth.
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- Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them understand the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah.
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