³⁴ They didn't destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them,

³⁵ but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.

³⁶ They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

³⁷ Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

³⁸ They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

³⁹ Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

⁴⁰ Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

⁴¹ He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³ Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

⁴⁵ He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

⁴⁶ He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

⁴⁷ Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!

⁴⁸ Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, "Amen." Praise Yah! BOOK V

¹ Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

² Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

³ And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

⁴ They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

⁵ Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

⁶ Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

⁷ he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

⁸ Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

⁹ For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

¹⁰ Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

¹¹ because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

¹² Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help.

¹³ Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

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

¹⁵ Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

¹⁶ For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.

¹⁷ Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

¹⁸ Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

¹⁹ Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.

²⁰ He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.

²¹ Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

²² Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with singing.

²³ Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;

²⁴ These see Yahweh's works, and his wonders in the deep.

²⁵ For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

²⁶ They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

²⁷ They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

²⁸ Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.

²⁹ He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

³⁰ Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.

³¹ Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works for the children of men!

³² Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders.

³³ He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

³⁴ and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

³⁵ He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

³⁶ There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

³⁷ sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

³⁸ He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.