1  'O give thanks unto YHWH, for He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever.'

title  Alleluia.

1  Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever.

1  Alleluia. Confess to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy is with every generation.

2  So let the redeemed of YHWH say, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary;

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  And gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea.

3  from the rising of the sun and its setting, from the north and from the sea.

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

4  They wandered into solitude in a waterless place. They did not find the way of the city to be their dwelling place.

4  They were lost in the wilderness in a place without water; they found not the right way to an inhabited town.

5  Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

5  They were hungry, and they were thirsty. Their soul fainted within them.

6  Then they cried unto YHWH in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses.

6  And they cried out to the Lord in tribulation, and he rescued them in their necessity.

7  And He led them by a straight way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

8  Let them give thanks unto YHWH for His mercy, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!

8  Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonderful works to the children of men.

8  Let his mercies confess to the Lord, and let his miracles confess to the sons of men.

9  For He hath satisfied the longing soul, and the hungry soul He hath filled with good.

9  For he satisfies the empty soul, and fills the hungry soul with good things,

10  Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron--

10  even them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and iron;

10  those sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, shackled by extreme poverty and by iron.

11  Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High.

11  For they exasperated the eloquence of God, and they irritated the deliberation of the Most High.

12  Therefore He humbled their heart with travail, they stumbled, and there was none to help--

12  So their heart was brought low with troubles; they were weak, and there was no helper.

12  And their heart was brought low with hardships. They were weakened, and there was no one to help them.

13  They cried unto YHWH in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses.

13  Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and he saved them out of their distresses.

13  And they cried out to the Lord in their tribulation, and he freed them from their distress.

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

14  And he led them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and he broke apart their chains.

15  Let them give thanks unto YHWH for His mercy, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!

15  Let his mercies confess to the Lord, and let his miracles confess to the sons of men.

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

16  For he broke to pieces the brazen gates, and crushed the iron bars.