Psalms · 43 verses
Psalms 107
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A storm makes seasoned sailors useless, and the silence after it is enough to make them rejoice.
Four cries from distressvv. 1–32
The redeemed are gathered from every direction, but their troubles arrive in several rather different costumes. Wanderers lose the road and grow faint with hunger; prisoners sit in darkness because they rebelled; fools loathe food and draw near death; sailors, conducting trade on the mighty waters, discover that all their skill has become decorative. Each group cries out in trouble, and each is delivered. The sailors receive the most beautifully quiet ending: the storm falls to a whisper, the waves are hushed, and the harbor appears as the desired destination. The repeated summons to thanksgiving gathers these rescues into one great chorus, with sacrifices, rejoicing, the assembly of the people, and the council of the elders.
The world turned upside downvv. 33–43
The LORD now rearranges landscapes with startling efficiency: rivers become deserts, springs become thirsty ground, and fruitful land becomes salt because of wickedness. Then the reversal comes—desert becomes pools, dry land becomes springs, and the hungry settle there, sowing fields and planting vineyards. Their numbers and herds increase, though oppression, evil, and sorrow can reduce them again. Even then, the needy are lifted and their families multiply like flocks. The upright rejoice, while iniquity, having been given a mouth for one splendid moment, shuts it.
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Ps 107:1Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
Ps 107:2Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy
Ps 107:3and gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.
Ps 107:4Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
Ps 107:5They were hungry and thirsty; their soul fainted within them.
Ps 107:6Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.
Ps 107:7He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.
Ps 107:8Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
Ps 107:9For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
Ps 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
Ps 107:11because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.
Ps 107:12He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
Ps 107:13Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
Ps 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
Ps 107:15Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
Ps 107:16For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
Ps 107:17Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
Ps 107:18They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
Ps 107:19Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
Ps 107:20He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.
Ps 107:21Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
Ps 107:22Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.
Ps 107:23Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.
Ps 107:24They saw the works of the LORD, and His wonders in the deep.
Ps 107:25For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.
Ps 107:26They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.
Ps 107:27They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.
Ps 107:28Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.
Ps 107:29He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
Ps 107:30They rejoiced in the silence, and He guided them to the harbor they desired.
Ps 107:31Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
Ps 107:32Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people and praise Him in the council of the elders.
Ps 107:33He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,
Ps 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Ps 107:35He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
Ps 107:36He causes the hungry to settle there, that they may establish a city in which to dwell.
Ps 107:37They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.
Ps 107:38He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
Ps 107:39When they are decreased and humbled by oppression, evil, and sorrow,
Ps 107:40He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
Ps 107:41But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
Ps 107:42The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
Ps 107:43Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.
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- 20Matthew 8:8The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
- 20Psalms 103:3–4He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- 20Psalms 147:15He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.
- 20Psalms 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- 202 Kings 20:4–5Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
- 20Job 33:28–30He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
- 20Psalms 56:13For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
- 20Psalms 147:18–19He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
- 20Psalms 30:2–3O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.
- 21 Peter 1:18–19For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
- 20Job 33:23–26Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
- 11 Chronicles 16:34Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
- 9Matthew 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
- 20Psalms 49:15But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
- 1Psalms 106:1Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
- 20Numbers 21:8–9Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”
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