Verse 1
Confesse you it vnto God: for he is gratious, and his mercy endureth for euer.
Verse 2
Let such as God did redeme speake: whom he hath redeemed from the hande of the enemie.
Verse 3
And whom he gathered out of the landes: from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
Verse 4
They went astray out of the way in solitarines and in wildernes, and found no citie to dwell in:
Verse 5
they were hungry and thirstie, their soule fainted in them.
Verse 6
And they cry vnto god in their trouble: who deliuereth them from their distresse.
Verse 7
And he leadeth them foorth by the right way: that they might go to the citie inhabited.
Verse 8
O that men would confesse vnto God his louyng kindnesse: and his marueylous actes done to the chyldren of men.
Verse 9
For he satisfieth the greedie soule: and filleth the hungry soule with goodnes.
Verse 10
Suche as sit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death: beyng fast bounde in miserie and iron.
Verse 11
Because they went from the wordes of the Lorde: and lightly regarded the counsayle of the most highest.
Verse 12
Therfore he humbled their heart thorowe heauines: they fall downe, and there is none to helpe them.
Verse 13
And they cry vnto god in their trouble: who deliuereth the out of their distresse.
Verse 14
For he bringeth them out of darknesse and out of the shadowe of death: and breaketh their bondes in sunder.
Verse 15
O that men would confesse vnto God: his louing kindnes and his marueylous actes done to the chyldren of men.
Verse 16
For he breaketh the gates of brasse: & smyteth the barres of iron in sunder.
Verse 17
Foolish men are plagued for their mischeuous wayes: & for their wickednes.
Verse 18
Their soule abhorreth all maner of meate: and they be euen harde at deathes doore.
Verse 19
And they crye vnto God in their trouble: who deliuereth them out of their distresse.
Verse 20
he sendeth his worde & healeth them: and he maketh them to scape safe from their corruptnes.
Verse 21
Verse 22
And that they would offer vnto him sacrifices of thankes geuing: and set foorth in wordes his workes with a ioyfull noyse.
Verse 23
Such as go downe to the sea in ships and folowe their busines in great waters:
Verse 24
they see the workes of God, and his wonders in the deepe.
Verse 25
For he commaundeth and causeth a stormie winde to arise: and he lifteth vp on high his waues.
Verse 26
Then they ascende vp to heauen, and come downe agayne to the deepe: so that their soule melteth away through trouble.
Verse 27
They reele to and fro, and they do stacker like a drunken man: and their wysdome fayleth them.
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For he maketh the storme to ceasse: so that the waues therof are still.
Verse 30
Then be they glad because they are at rest: and he bringeth them to the hauen where they woulde be.
Verse 31
O that men would confesse vnto god: his louyng kyndnes and meruaylous actes done to the chyldren of men.
Verse 32
And that they would exalt him in the congregation of the people: and prayse him in the consistorie of the aged.
Verse 33
He turneth fluddes into a wildernes: and waterspringes into a drye grounde.
Verse 34
He maketh a fruitfull grounde barren: for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.
Verse 35
Contrary he reduceth a wyldernes into a standing water: and a drye ground into water springes.
Verse 36
And he setteth there the hungry: and they buylde them a citie to dwell in.
Verse 37
And they sowe their lande and plant vineyardes: and they yelde vnto them aboundant store of fruites.
Verse 38
He blesseth them, so that they multiplie exceedingly: and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Verse 39
But when they do fall from God, they are diminished & brought low: through oppression, calamitie, & griefe of minde.
Verse 40
He bringeth princes into contempt: & he maketh them to wander in a wildernesse where there is no way at all.
Verse 41
Yet he exalteth the poore out of miserie: and geueth him housholdes equall to flockes of cattell.
Verse 42
The righteous will marke this and reioyce: and the mouth of all wickednesse shalbe stopped.
Verse 43
Whosoeuer is wyse, he wyll both obserue these thinges: and also well consider the louing kindnesse of God.