106:1Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness endureth for ever.

106:2Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? who can shew forth all his praise?

106:3Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

106:4Remember me, O Jehovah, with thy favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:

106:5That 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.

106:6We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

106:7Our 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.

106:8Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.

106:9And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.

106:10And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

106:11And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.

106:12Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

106:13They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

106:14And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted *God in the desert.

106:15Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

106:16And they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.

106:17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;

106:18And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.

106:19They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;

106:20And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

106:21They forgot *God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,

106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

106:23And 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.

106:24And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,

106:25But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.

106:26And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;

106:27And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

106:28And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;

106:29And they provoked him to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.

106:30Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;

106:31And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.

106:32And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

106:33For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

106:34They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;

106:35But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;

106:36And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:

106:37And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

106:38And 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.

106:39And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

106:40Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;

106:41And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:

106:42And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

106:43Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.

106:44But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;

106:45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;

106:46And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.

106:47Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

106:48Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!

107:1Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness endureth for ever.

107:2Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the oppressor,

107:3And gathered out of the countries, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea.

107:4They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way, they found no city of habitation;

107:5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them:

107:6Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

107:7And he led them forth by a right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

107:8Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;

107:9For he hath satisfied the longing soul and filled the hungry soul with good.

107:10Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,

107:11Because they had rebelled against the words of *God, and had despised the counsel of the Most High; ...

107:12And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled, and there was none to help:

107:13Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses;

107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.

107:15Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;

107:16For he hath broken the gates of bronze, and cut asunder the bars of iron.

107:17Fools, because of their way of transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted;

107:18Their soul abhorreth all manner of food, and they draw near unto the gates of death:

107:19Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses;

107:20He sendeth his word, and healeth them, and delivereth them from their destructions.

107:21Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men,

107:22And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works in joyful song.

107:23They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters,

107:24These see the works of Jehovah, and his wonders in the deep.

107:25For he speaketh, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof:

107:26They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble;

107:27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:

107:28Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses;

107:29He maketh the storm a calm, and the waves thereof are still:

107:30And they rejoice because they are quiet; and he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

107:31Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;

107:32Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the session of the elders.

107:33He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;

107:34A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

107:35He maketh the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs;

107:36And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, and they establish a city of habitation;

107:37And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits of increase;

107:38And he blesseth them, so that they are multiplied greatly; and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

107:39And they are diminished and brought low, through oppression, adversity, and sorrow:

107:40He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;

107:41But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh him families like flocks.

107:42The upright shall see it, and rejoice; and all unrighteousness shall stop its mouth.

107:43Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them understand the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah.

108:0A Song, a Psalm of David. *

108:1My heart is fixed, O God: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms, even with my glory.

108:2Awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn.

108:3I will give thee thanks among the peoples, O Jehovah; of thee will I sing psalms among the nations:

108:4For thy loving-kindness is great above the heavens, and thy truth is unto the clouds.

108:5Be thou exalted above the heavens, O God, and thy glory above all the earth.

108:6That thy beloved ones may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.

108:7God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

108:8Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

108:9Moab is my wash-pot; upon Edom will I cast my sandal; over Philistia will I shout aloud.

108:10Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me unto Edom?

108:11Wilt not thou, O God, who didst cast us off? and didst not go forth, O God, with our armies?

108:12Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

108:13Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will tread down our adversaries.