Confitemini Domino. All are invited to give thanks to God for his perpetual providence over men. Alleluia.
[1] Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
[2] Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries.
[3] From the rising and the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea.
[4] They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.
[5] They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.
[6] And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered them out of their distresses.
[7] And he led them into the right way: that they might go to a city of habitation.
[8] Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men.
[9] For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry soul with good things.
[10] Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.
[11] Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:
[12] And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened, and their was none to help them.
[13] Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses.
[14] And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder.
[15] Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.
[16] Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst the iron bars.
[17] He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices.
[18] Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.
[19] And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses.
[20] He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions.
[21] Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men.
[22] And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his works with joy.
[23] They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great waters:
[24] These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
[25] He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves thereof were lifted up.
[26] They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils.
[27] They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.
[28] And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses.
[29] And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still.
[30] And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them to the haven which they wished for.
[31] Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.
[32] And let them exalt him in the church of the people: and praise him in the chair of the ancients.
[33] He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of water into dry ground:
[34] A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
[35] He hath turned a wilderness into pools of water, and a dry land into water springs.
[36] And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their habitation.
[37] And they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded fruit of birth.
[38] And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.
[39] Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.
[40] Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.
[41] And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep.
[42] The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop their mouth.
[43] Who is wise, and will keep these things: and will understand the mercies of the Lord?
