1. "Give thanks to the Lord because he is good,because his faithful love lasts forever!"
2. That’s what those who are redeemed by the Lord say,the ones God redeemed from the power of their enemies,
3. the ones God gathered from various countries,from east and west, north and south.
4. Some of the redeemed had wandered into the desert, into the wasteland.They couldn’t find their way to a city or town.
5. They were hungry and thirsty;their lives were slipping away.
6. So they cried out to the Lord in their distress,and God delivered them from their desperate circumstances.
7. God led them straight to human habitation.
8. Let them thank the Lord for his faithful loveand his wondrous works for all people,
9. because God satisfied the one who was parched with thirst,and he filled up the hungry with good things!
10. Some of the redeemed had been sitting in darkness and deep gloom;they were prisoners suffering in chains
11. because they had disobeyed God’s instructionsand rejected the Most High’s plans.