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i.e. the Reed Sea">b</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They wandered in desolate wilderness;</p> <p class="poetry2">they found no road to a city where they could live.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Hungry and thirsty,</p> <p class="poetry2">their spirits<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="107:5 Lit. soul">c</a></span> failed.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,</p> <p class="poetry2">and he delivered them from their distress.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He led them in a straight way</p> <p class="poetry2">to find a city where they could live.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let them give thanks to the LORD</p> <p class="poetry2">for his gracious love</p> <p class="poetry2">and his awesome deeds for mankind.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He has satisfied the one who thirsts,</p> <p class="poetry2">filling the hungry with what is good.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Some sat in deepest darkness,</p> <p class="poetry2">shackled with cruel iron,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>because they had rebelled against the command of God,</p> <p class="poetry2">despising the advice of the Most High.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He humbled them<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="107:12 Lit. humbled their hearts">d</a></span> through suffering,</p> <p class="poetry2">as they stumbled without a helper.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble;</p> <p class="poetry2">he delivered them from their distress.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="107:14 So LXX DSS 4QPs; MT reads He">e</a></span> brought them out from darkness and the shadow of death,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="107:14 So LXX; MT reads and gloom">f</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">shattering their chains.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Let them give<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="107:15 So MT LXX; DSS 4QPs reads Give">g</a></span> thanks to the LORD for his gracious love,</p> <p class="poetry2">and for his awesome deeds to mankind.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For he shattered bronze gates</p> <p class="poetry2">and cut through iron bars.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Because of their rebellious ways,</p> <p class="poetry2">fools suffered for their iniquities.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="107:18 Lit. their souls">h</a></span> loathed all food,</p> <p class="poetry2">and even reached the gates of death.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Yet when they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,</p> <p class="poetry2">he delivered them from certain destruction.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He issued his command<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="107:20 Lit. word">i</a></span> and healed them;</p> <p class="poetry2">he delivered them from their destruction.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love,</p> <p class="poetry2">and for his awesome deeds for mankind.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving</p> <p class="poetry2">and talk about his works with shouts of joy.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Those who go down to the sea in ships,</p> <p class="poetry2">who work in the great waters,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>witnessed the works of the LORD—</p> <p class="poetry2">his awesome deeds in the ocean’s depth.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He spoke and stirred up a windstorm</p> <p class="poetry2">that made its waves surge.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The people<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="107:26 Lit. They">j</a></span> ascended skyward and descended to the depths,</p> <p class="poetry2">their courage<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="107:26 Lit. souls">k</a></span> melting away in their peril.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>They reeled and staggered like a drunkard,</p> <p class="poetry2">as all their wisdom became useless.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Yet when they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,</p> <p class="poetry2">the LORD brought them out of their distress.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He calmed the storm</p> <p class="poetry2">and its waves<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="107:29 So MT LXX; DSS 4QPs reads and the waves of the sea; cf. Psa 107:25">l</a></span> quieted down.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So they rejoiced that the waves<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="107:30 Lit. they">m</a></span> became quiet,</p> <p class="poetry2">and he led them to their desired haven.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love</p> <p class="poetry2">and for his awesome deeds on behalf of mankind.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people</p> <p class="poetry2">and praise him in the counsel of the elders.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He turns rivers into a desert,</p> <p class="poetry2">springs of water into dry ground,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>and a fruitful land into a salty waste,</p> <p class="poetry2">due to the wickedness of its inhabitants.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He turns a desert into a pool of water,</p> <p class="poetry2">dry land into springs of water.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>There he settled the hungry,</p> <p class="poetry2">where they built a city to live in.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>They sowed fields and planted vineyards</p> <p class="poetry2">that yielded a productive harvest.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Then he blessed them, and they became numerous;</p> <p class="poetry2">he multiplied their cattle.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="107:38 Or he didn’t let their cattle become few ">n</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>But they became few in number, and humiliated</p> <p class="poetry2">by continued oppression, agony, and sorrow.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Having poured contempt on their nobles,</p> <p class="poetry2">causing them to err aimlessly in the way.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Yet he lifted the needy from affliction</p> <p class="poetry2">and made them families like a flock.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>The upright see it and rejoice,</p> <p class="poetry2">but the mouth of an evil person is shut.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/107-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Let whoever is wise observe these things,</p> <p class="poetry2">that they may comprehend the gracious love of the LORD.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 107:2 Lit. <i>hand</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 107:3 Lit. <i>and the sea</i>; i.e. the Reed Sea<br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 107:5 Lit. <i>soul</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 107:12 Lit. <i>humbled their hearts</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 107:14 So LXX DSS 4QPs; MT reads <i>He</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 107:14 So LXX; MT reads <i>and gloom</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 107:15 So MT LXX; DSS 4QPs reads <i>Give</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 107:18 Lit. <i>their souls</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 107:20 Lit. <i>word</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 107:26 Lit. <i>They</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 107:26 Lit. <i>souls</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 107:29 So MT LXX; DSS 4QPs reads <i>and the waves of the sea</i>; cf. 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