106 Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

² Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? [who] can shew forth all his praise?

³ Blessed are they that keep justice, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.

⁴ Remember me, O Jehovah, with [thy] favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:

⁵ That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

⁷ Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.

⁸ Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.

⁹ And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.

¹⁰ And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them], and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹ And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.

¹² Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

¹³ They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

¹⁴ And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

¹⁵ Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶ And they envied Moses in the camp, [and] Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.

¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;

¹⁸ And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;

²⁰ And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

²¹ They forgot God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,

²² Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

²³ And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy [them].

²⁴ And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,

²⁵ But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.

²⁶ And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;

²⁷ And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

²⁸ And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;

²⁹ And they provoked [him] to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.

³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;

³¹ And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.

³² And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

³³ For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;

³⁵ But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;

³⁶ And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:

³⁷ And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

³⁸ And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

³⁹ And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

⁴⁰ Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;

⁴¹ And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:

⁴² And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³ Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked [him] by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.

⁴⁴ But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;

⁴⁵ And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;

⁴⁶ And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.

⁴⁷ Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise.

⁴⁸ Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!

107 Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

² Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the oppressor,

³ And gathered out of the countries, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea.

⁴ They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way, they found no city of habitation;

⁵ Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them:

⁶ Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, [and] he delivered them out of their distresses,

⁷ And he led them forth by a right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

⁸ Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;

⁹ For he hath satisfied the longing soul and filled the hungry soul with good.

¹⁰ Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,

¹¹ Because they had rebelled against the words of God, and had despised the counsel of the Most High; …

¹² And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled, and there was none to help:

¹³ Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, [and] he saved them out of their distresses;

¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.

¹⁵ Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;

¹⁶ For he hath broken the gates of bronze, and cut asunder the bars of iron.

¹⁷ Fools, because of their way of transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted;

¹⁸ Their soul abhorreth all manner of food, and they draw near unto the gates of death:

¹⁹ Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, [and] he saveth them out of their distresses;

²⁰ He sendeth his word, and healeth them, and delivereth them from their destructions.

²¹ Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men,

²² And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works in joyful song.

²³ They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters,

²⁴ These see the works of Jehovah, and his wonders in the deep.

²⁵ For he speaketh, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof:

²⁶ They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble;

²⁷ They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:

²⁸ Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses;

²⁹ He maketh the storm a calm, and the waves thereof are still:

³⁰ And they rejoice because they are quiet; and he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

³¹ Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;

³² Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the session of the elders.

³³ He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;

³⁴ A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

³⁵ He maketh the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs;

³⁶ And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, and they establish a city of habitation;

³⁷ And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits of increase;

³⁸ And he blesseth them, so that they are multiplied greatly; and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

³⁹ And they are diminished and brought low, through oppression, adversity, and sorrow:

⁴⁰ He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;

⁴¹ But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh [him] families like flocks.

⁴² The upright shall see it, and rejoice; and all unrighteousness shall stop its mouth.

⁴³ Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them understand the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah.

A Song, a Psalm of David.

108 My heart is fixed, O God: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms, even [with] my glory.

² Awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn.

³ I will give thee thanks among the peoples, O Jehovah; of thee will I sing psalms among the nations:

⁴ For thy loving-kindness is great above the heavens, and thy truth is unto the clouds.

⁵ Be thou exalted above the heavens, O God, and thy glory above all the earth.

⁶ That thy beloved ones may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.

⁷ God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

⁸ Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

⁹ Moab is my wash-pot; upon Edom will I cast my sandal; over Philistia will I shout aloud.

¹⁰ Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me unto Edom?

¹¹ [Wilt] not [thou], O God, who didst cast us off? and didst not go forth, O God, with our armies?

¹² Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

¹³ Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will tread down our adversaries.