1. O GIVE thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever!
2. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary,
3. And gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the [Red] Sea in the south.
4. Some wandered in the wilderness in a solitary desert track; they found no city for habitation.
5. Hungry and thirsty, they fainted; their lives were near to being extinguished.
6. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses.
7. He led them forth by the straight and right way, that they might go to a city where they could establish their homes.
8. Oh, that men would praise [and confess to] the Lord for His goodness and loving-kindness and His wonderful works to the children of men!
9. For He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with good.
10. Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and in irons, [Luke 1:79.]
11. Because they had rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High.
12. Therefore He bowed down their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled and fell down, and there was none to help.
13. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses.