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[1]Confesseyou [it] vnto God: for he is gratious, and his mercy endureth for euer
[2]Letsuch as God did redeme speake: whom he hath redeemed from the hande of the enemie
[3]Andwhom he gathered out of the landes: from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south
[4](107:4a)They went astray out of the way in solitarines [and] in wildernes, and found no citie to dwell in
[5](107:4b)they were hungry and thirstie, their soule fainted in them
[6](107:5)And they cry vnto god in their trouble: who deliuereth them from their distresse
[7](107:6)And he leadeth them foorth by the right way: that they might go to the citie inhabited
[8](107:7)O that men would confesse vnto God his louyng kindnesse: and his marueylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men
[9](107:8)For he satisfieth the greedie soule: and filleth the hungry soule with goodnes
[10](107:9)Suche as sit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death: beyng fast bounde in miserie and iron
[11](107:10)Because they went from the wordes of the Lorde: and lightly regarded the counsayle of the most highest
[12](107:11)Therfore he humbled their heart thorowe heauines: they fall downe, and there is none to helpe them
[13](107:12)And they cry vnto god in their trouble: who deliuereth the out of their distresse
[14](107:13)For he bringeth them out of darknesse and out of the shadowe of death: and breaketh their bondes in sunder
[15](107:14)O that men would confesse vnto God: his louing kindnes and his marueylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men
[16](107:15)For he breaketh the gates of brasse: & smyteth the barres of iron in sunder
[17](107:16)Foolish men are plagued for their mischeuous wayes: & for their wickednes
[18](107:17)Their soule abhorreth all maner of meate: and they be euen harde at deathes doore
[19](107:18)And they crye vnto God in their trouble: who deliuereth them out of their distresse
[20](107:19)he sendeth his worde & healeth them: and he maketh them to scape safe from their corruptnes
[21](107:20)O that men would confesse vnto God: his louing kindnes and his marueylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men
[22](107:21)And that they would offer [vnto him] sacrifices of thankes geuing: and set foorth in wordes his workes with a ioyfull noyse
[23](107:22a)Such as go downe to the sea in ships and folowe their busines in great waters
[24](107:22b)they see the workes of God, and his wonders in the deepe
[25](107:23)For he commaundeth and causeth a stormie winde to arise: and he lifteth vp on high his waues
[26](107:24)[Then] they ascende vp to heauen, and come downe agayne to the deepe: so that their soule melteth away through trouble
[27](107:25)They reele to and fro, and they do stacker like a drunken man: and their wysdome fayleth them
[28](107:26)And they cry vnto god in their trouble: who deliuereth the out of their distresse
[29](107:27)For he maketh the storme to ceasse: so that the waues therof are still
[30](107:28)Then be they glad because they are at rest: and he bringeth them to the hauen where they woulde be
[31](107:29)O that men would confesse vnto god: his louyng kyndnes and meruaylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men
[32](107:30)And that they would exalt him in the congregation of the people: and prayse him in the consistorie of the aged
[33](107:31)He turneth fluddes into a wildernes: and waterspringes into a drye grounde
[34](107:32)He [maketh] a fruitfull grounde barren: for the wickednes of them that dwell therein
[35](107:33)[Contrary] he reduceth a wyldernes into a standing water: and a drye ground into water springes
[36](107:34)And he setteth there the hungry: and they buylde them a citie to dwell in
[37](107:35)And they sowe their lande and plant vineyardes: and they yelde [vnto them] aboundant store of fruites
[38](107:36)He blesseth them, so that they multiplie exceedingly: and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease
[39](107:37)But [when they do fall from God,] they are diminished & brought low: through oppression, calamitie, & griefe of minde
[40](107:38)He bringeth princes into contempt: & he maketh them to wander in a wildernesse where there is no way at all
[41](107:39)Yet he exalteth the poore out of miserie: and geueth him housholdes equall to flockes of cattell
[42](107:40)The righteous will marke [this] and reioyce: and the mouth of all wickednesse shalbe stopped
[43](107:41)Whosoeuer is wyse, he wyll both obserue these thinges: and also well consider the louing kindnesse of God
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