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Chapter 106 · Douay–Rheims / Challoner

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Chapter 106 · Open to read

From Psalms · Douay–Rheims / Challoner (1749–1752)

What does Psalms Chapter 106 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The four distress accounts include cries and recorded deliverances. Settlement’s blessing is followed by reduced numbers and afflicted princes. Praise refrains and the wisdom question remain without a universal rescue formula.

Chapter breakdown

Confitemini Domino and Alleluia introduce the heading's thanksgiving for perpetual providence. Redeemed people gathered from countries, sun's rising and setting, north and sea are to glory in God's enduring mercy. Waterless wilderness wanderers lacked city path, hungry and thirsty with fainting souls. They cried and were delivered and guided a right way toward habitation. The refrain calls mercies and works to glory, with empty and hungry souls satisfied.

Those in darkness and death's shadow were bound in want and iron because they exasperated words and counsel, humbled with labor and weakened without help. Crying brought delivery, darkness lifted and bonds broken, with the refrain and brass gates and iron bars broken. Others were taken out of iniquity and brought low for injustice, abhorred food and approached death's gates; cries brought delivery, a sent word healed and rescued. The source does not name fools or supply a particular disease. Praise sacrifice and joyful works declaration follow.

Shipboard business people saw deep wonders; a spoken word brought windstorm and high waves. They mounted to heaven and down depths, souls pined, reeling like drunken men and wisdom swallowed. Crying brought delivery, storm became breeze and waves still; they rejoiced and reached desired haven. The repeated glory call includes church of people and chair of ancients. No particular navigation maneuver is described.

Rivers and water sources became dry wilderness and fertile land barren for inhabitants' wickedness. Wilderness became pools and springs, hungry people placed and building a city, sowing fields and vineyards yielding fruit. They multiplied under blessing, cattle not decreased. Then they became few and afflicted through evils and sorrow, contempt upon princes wandering impassable ways. Poor people were helped from poverty and families made like sheep. The just shall see and rejoice and iniquity stop her mouth, ending a question about wisdom, keeping and understanding mercies. Population decline is retained, princes are not newly called tyrants and cattle preservation is not changed to multiplication.

The story inside

Opening: The four distress accounts include cries and recorded deliverances. Development: Settlement’s blessing is followed by reduced numbers and afflicted princes. Conclusion: Praise refrains and the wisdom question remain without a universal rescue formula.

Lessons worth keeping

  1. 1
    The four distress accounts include cries and recorded deliverances.
  2. 2
    Settlement’s blessing is followed by reduced numbers and afflicted princes.
  3. 3
    Praise refrains and the wisdom question remain without a universal rescue formula.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

  1. Lines 64641–64646

    106:1. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 106:2. 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.
  2. Lines 64662–64666

    106:8. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men. 106:9. For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry soul with good things.
  3. Lines 64697–64698

    106:20. He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions.
  4. Lines 64724–64728

    106:29. And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still. 106:30. And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them to the haven which they wished for.
  5. Lines 64766–64767

    106:43. Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the mercies of the Lord?

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