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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, and his loyal love endures! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Let those delivered by the LORD speak out, those whom he delivered from the power of the enemy, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and gathered from foreign lands, from east and west, from north and south. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He led them on a level road, that they might find a city in which to live. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For he has satisfied those who thirst, and those who hunger he has filled with food. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11because they had rebelled against God's commands, and rejected the instructions of the sovereign king. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12So he used suffering to humble them; they stumbled and no one helped them up. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people! |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, and suffered because of their sins. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20He sent them an assuring word and healed them; he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people! |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Let them present thank offerings, and loudly proclaim what he has done! |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Some traveled on the sea in ships, and carried cargo over the vast waters. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24They witnessed the acts of the LORD, his amazing feats on the deep water. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They reached up to the sky, then dropped into the depths. The sailors' strength left them because the danger was so great. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29He calmed the storm, and the waves grew silent. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30The sailors rejoiced because the waves grew quiet, and he led them to the harbor they desired. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people! |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people! Let them praise him in the place where the leaders preside! |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Yet he protected the needy from oppression, and cared for his families like a flock of sheep. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42When the godly see this, they rejoice, and every sinner shuts his mouth. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things! Let them consider the LORD's acts of loyal love! |
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