1. Alleluia. Confess to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy is with every generation.
2. Let those who have been redeemed by the Lord say so: those whom he redeemed from the hand of the enemy and gathered from the regions,
3. from the rising of the sun and its setting, from the north and from the sea.
4. They wandered into solitude in a waterless place. They did not find the way of the city to be their dwelling place.
5. They were hungry, and they were thirsty. Their soul fainted within them.
6. And they cried out to the Lord in tribulation, and he rescued them in their necessity.