42:1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

42:2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

42:3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

42:4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

42:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

42:6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

42:8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

42:9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

42:10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

42:11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

107:1O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

107:2Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

107:3And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

107:4They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

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

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

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

107:8Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

107:9For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

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

107:11Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

107:12Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

107:13Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

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

107:15Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

107:16For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

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

107:18Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

107:19Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

107:20He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

107:21Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

107:22And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

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

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

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

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

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

107:28Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

107:29He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

107:30Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

107:31Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

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

107:33He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

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

107:35He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

107:36And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

107:37And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

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

107:39Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

107:40He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

107:41Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

107:42The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

107:43Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.