RAISE ye JEHOVAH, for he is good,
For everlasting is his mercy!
Let the ransomed of Jehovah speak,
Whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the foe;
And from the nations hath assembled them,
From the east, and from the west; from the north, and from the sea.
They wandered in the desert, in the pathless waste,
A city of habitation they did not find;
Famished with hunger, parched with thirst,
Their souls within them fainted.
Then they cried unto JEHOVAH in their trouble;
Out of their afflictions he delivereth them;
He led them forth by the right way,
That they might reach a city of habitation.
Let them praise Jehovah for his mercy,
And his wonders wrought in favour of men;
For he hath satisfied the craving soul,
And the famished soul,, he hath filled with goodness!
The dwellers in darkness, and the shadow of death,
Bound in affliction, and in iron;
Because they rebelled against the words of God,
And the counsel of the Highest they despised
Then he humbled with labour their heart,
They fell down-and there was not a helper!
Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble;
Out of their afflictions, he delivereth them;
He led them forth from darkness and the shadow of death,
And their bonds, he burst asunder.
