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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Psalm 107 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/psalms/107.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/107.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table 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id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/106.htm" title="Psalm 106">◄</a> Psalm 107 <a href="../psalms/108.htm" title="Psalm 108">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div align="center"><p class="acrostic">ספר חמישי<br>BOOK V</p></div><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>‘O give thanks unto the LORD, for He is good,</div><div class="po2">For His mercy endureth for ever.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So let the redeemed of the LORD say,</div><div class="po2">Whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And gathered them out of the lands,</div><div class="po2">From the east and from the west,</div><div class="po2">From the north and from the sea.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way;</div><div class="po2">They found no city of habitation.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Hungry and thirsty,</div><div class="po2">Their soul fainted in them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble,</div><div class="po2">And He delivered them out of their distresses.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And He led them by a straight way,</div><div class="po2">That they might go to a city of habitation.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let them give thanks unto the LORD for His mercy,</div><div class="po2">And for His wonderful works to the children of men!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For He hath satisfied the longing soul,</div><div class="po2">And the hungry soul He hath filled with good.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,</div><div class="po2">Being bound in affliction and iron—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Because they rebelled against the words of God,</div><div class="po2">And contemned the counsel of the Most High.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore He humbled their heart with travail,</div><div class="po2">They stumbled, and there was none to help—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They cried unto the LORD in their trouble,</div><div class="po2">And He saved them out of their distresses.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,</div><div class="po2">And broke their bands in sunder.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Let them give thanks unto the LORD for His mercy,</div><div class="po2">And for His wonderful works to the children of men!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For He hath broken the gates of brass,</div><div class="po2">And cut the bars of iron in sunder.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Crazed because of the way of their transgression,</div><div class="po2">And afflicted because of their iniquities—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Their soul abhorred all manner of food,</div><div class="po2">And they drew near unto the gates of death—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They cried unto the LORD in their trouble,</div><div class="po2">And He saved them out of their distresses;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He sent His word, and healed them,</div><div class="po2">And delivered them from their graves.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Let them give thanks unto the LORD for His mercy,</div><div class="po2">And for His wonderful works to the children of men!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,</div><div class="po2">And declare His works with singing.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They that go down to the sea in ships,</div><div class="po2">That do business in great waters—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>These saw the works of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">And His wonders in the deep;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For He commanded, and raised the stormy wind,</div><div class="po2">Which lifted up the waves thereof;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They mounted up to the heaven, they went down to the deeps;</div><div class="po2">Their soul melted away because of trouble;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>They reeled to and fro, and staggered like a drunken man,</div><div class="po2">And all their wisdom was swallowed up—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They cried unto the LORD in their trouble,</div><div class="po2">And He brought them out of their distresses.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He made the storm a calm,</div><div class="po2">So that the waves thereof were still.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Then were they glad because they were quiet,</div><div class="po2">And He led them unto their desired haven.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Let them give thanks unto the LORD for His mercy,</div><div class="po2">And for His wonderful works to the children of men!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Let them exalt Him also in the assembly of the people,</div><div class="po2">And praise Him in the seat of the elders.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He turneth rivers into a wilderness,</div><div class="po2">And watersprings into a thirsty ground;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>A fruitful land into a salt waste,</div><div class="po2">For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water,</div><div class="po2">And a dry land into watersprings.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And there He maketh the hungry to dwell,</div><div class="po2">And they establish a city of habitation;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And sow fields, and plant vineyards,</div><div class="po2">Which yield fruits of increase.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly,</div><div class="po2">And suffereth not their cattle to decrease.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Again, they are minished and dwindle away</div><div class="po2">Through oppression of evil and sorrow.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>He poureth contempt upon princes,</div><div class="po2">And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Yet setteth He the needy on high from affliction,</div><div class="po2">And maketh his families like a flock.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>The upright see it, and are glad;</div><div class="po2">And all iniquity stoppeth her mouth.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Whoso is wise, let him observe these things,</div><div class="po2">And let them consider the mercies of the LORD.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/106.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 106"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 106" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/108.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 108"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" 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