| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His faithful love endures forever. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Let the redeemed of the LORD proclaim that He has redeemed them from the hand of the foe |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and has gathered them from the lands-- from the east and the west, from the north and the south. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Some wandered in the desolate wilderness, finding no way to a city where they could live. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They were hungry and thirsty; their spirits failed within them. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; He rescued them from their distress. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He led them by the right path to go to a city where they could live. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Let them give thanks to the LORD for His faithful love and His wonderful works for all humanity. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For He has satisfied the thirsty and filled the hungry with good things. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Others sat in darkness and gloom-- prisoners in cruel chains-- |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11because they rebelled against God's commands and despised the counsel of the Most High. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He broke their spirits with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; He saved them from their distress. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14He brought them out of darkness and gloom and broke their chains apart. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Let them give thanks to the LORD for His faithful love and His wonderful works for all humanity. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For He has broken down the bronze gates and cut through the iron bars. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Fools suffered affliction because of their rebellious ways and their sins. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18They loathed all food and came near the gates of death. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; He saved them from their distress. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20He sent His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Let them give thanks to the LORD for His faithful love and His wonderful works for all humanity. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and announce His works with shouts of joy. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Others went to sea in ships, conducting trade on the vast waters. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24They saw the LORD's works, His wonderful works in the deep. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He spoke and raised a tempest that stirred up the waves of the sea. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Rising up to the sky, sinking down to the depths, their courage melting away in anguish, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27they reeled and staggered like drunken men, and all their skill was useless. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29He stilled the storm to a murmur, and the waves of the sea were hushed. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30They rejoiced when the waves grew quiet. Then He guided them to the harbor they longed for. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Let them give thanks to the LORD for His faithful love and His wonderful works for all humanity. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people and praise Him in the council of the elders. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33He turns rivers into desert, springs of water into thirsty ground, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34and fruitful land into salty wasteland, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35He turns a desert into a pool of water, dry land into springs of water. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36He causes the hungry to settle there, and they establish a city where they can live. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their livestock decrease. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39When they are diminished and are humbled by cruel oppression and sorrow, |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40He pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41But He lifts the needy out of their suffering and makes their families multiply like flocks. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42The upright see it and rejoice, and all injustice shuts its mouth. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Let whoever is wise pay attention to these things and consider the LORD's acts of faithful love. |
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