Oratio: Oh Give Thanks to the Lord, For he Is Good

In today’s Oratio Hour, Rev. Jonathan Fisk meditates on Psalm 107:1-9.

Book Five

Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So

107 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
    for his steadfast love endures forever!
²Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
    whom he has redeemed from trouble^[a]
³and gathered in from the lands,
    from the east and from the west,
    from the north and from the south.

⁴Some wandered in desert wastes,
    finding no way to a city to dwell in;
⁵hungry and thirsty,
    their soul fainted within them.
⁶Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
    and he delivered them from their distress.
⁷He led them by a straight way
    till they reached a city to dwell in.
⁸Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
    for his wondrous works to the children of man!
⁹For he satisfies the longing soul,
    and the hungry soul he fills with good things.