A Reading of Psalm 107 in the LSB by Jon Benzinger
00:00:00.000 | Hi, I'm John Benzinger, and my reading from the Legacy Standard Bible is from Psalm 107.
00:00:09.360 | "Oh, give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his lovingkindness endures forever.
00:00:14.980 | Let the redeemed of Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
00:00:19.800 | and gathered from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from
00:00:23.960 | the south.
00:00:25.340 | They wandered in the wilderness along the way of the wasteland; they did not find an
00:00:29.040 | inhabited city.
00:00:30.920 | Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.
00:00:34.360 | Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble; he delivered them out of their distress.
00:00:39.660 | He led them by a straight way to go to an inhabited city.
00:00:44.060 | Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his lovingkindness and for his wondrous deeds to the sons of
00:00:48.780 | men, for he has satisfied the thirsty soul, and the hungry soul he has filled with what
00:00:54.920 | is good.
00:00:56.720 | There were those who inhabited darkness and the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction
00:01:00.920 | and irons, because they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel
00:01:07.200 | of the Most High.
00:01:08.940 | So he subdued their heart with labor; they stumbled, and there was none to help.
00:01:13.880 | Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble; he saved them out of their distress.
00:01:18.600 | He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands apart.
00:01:23.800 | Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his lovingkindness and for his wondrous deeds to the sons of
00:01:28.280 | men, for he has shattered the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
00:01:34.620 | Ignorant fools, because of their way of transgression and because of their iniquities, were afflicted.
00:01:41.000 | Their soul abhorred all kinds of food, and they reached the gates of death.
00:01:46.800 | And they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble; he saved them out of their distress.
00:01:52.400 | He sent his word and healed them and provided them escape from their destructions.
00:01:57.520 | Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his lovingkindness and for his wondrous deeds to the sons of
00:02:02.720 | men.
00:02:03.920 | Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and recount his works with joyful singing.
00:02:09.840 | Those who go down to the sea in ships who do business on many waters, they have seen
00:02:14.480 | the works of Yahweh and his wondrous deeds in the deep.
00:02:18.200 | He spoke and set up the stormy wind, which raised up the waves of the sea.
00:02:23.780 | They went up to the heavens, they went down to the depths, their soul melted away in the
00:02:28.120 | calamity.
00:02:29.440 | They staggered and swayed like a drunken man, and all their wisdom was swallowed up.
00:02:35.320 | Then they cried to Yahweh in their distress, in their trouble, and brought them out of
00:02:39.520 | their distress.
00:02:41.680 | He caused the storm to stand still, so that its waves were hushed.
00:02:47.360 | And they were glad because they were quiet.
00:02:50.840 | So he led them to their desired haven.
00:02:53.760 | Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his lovingkindness and for his wondrous deeds to the sons of
00:02:58.560 | men.
00:02:59.640 | Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people and praise him at the seat of the
00:03:04.520 | elders.
00:03:06.040 | He makes rivers into a wilderness and springs of water into thirsty ground, a fruitful land
00:03:11.500 | into a salt waste because of the evil of those who inhabited it.
00:03:17.160 | He makes a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry land into springs of water.
00:03:22.560 | And there he causes the hungry to inhabit, so that they may establish an inhabited city,
00:03:28.460 | and sow fields and plant vineyards and produce a fruitful harvest.
00:03:32.560 | He also blesses them, and they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle decrease.
00:03:40.800 | But when they decrease and are bowed down through oppression, evil, and sorrow, he pours
00:03:46.800 | contempt upon nobles and makes them wander in a pathless void.
00:03:51.440 | But he sets the needy securely on high, away from affliction, and makes his families like
00:03:58.000 | a flock.
00:03:59.260 | The upright see it and are glad, but all unrighteousness shuts its mouth.
00:04:05.360 | Who is wise?
00:04:06.820 | Let him keep these things and carefully consider the lovingkindness of Yahweh.
00:04:12.400 | Amen.
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