{"id":8176,"date":"2023-07-25T08:50:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T14:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=8176"},"modified":"2024-02-27T06:23:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:23:54","slug":"psalm-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=8176","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 107"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving to the Lord<\/span> for His Great Works of Deliverance<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

1 <\/span>Oh, give thanks to the Lord<\/span>, for He is good!<\/span><\/span><\/em>
\nFor His mercy endures forever.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

2 <\/sup>Let the redeemed of the Lord<\/span> say so,<\/span><\/em>
\nWhom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

3 <\/sup>And gathered out of the lands,<\/span><\/em>
\nFrom the east and from the west,<\/span><\/em>
\nFrom the north and from the south.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

4\u00a0<\/sup>They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way;<\/span><\/em>
\nThey found no city to dwell in.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

5 <\/sup>Hungry and thirsty,<\/span><\/em>
\nTheir soul fainted in them.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

6 <\/sup>Then they cried out to the Lord<\/span> in their trouble,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd He delivered them out of their distresses.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

7 <\/sup>And He led them forth by the right way,<\/span><\/em>
\nThat they might go to a city for a dwelling place.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

8 <\/sup>Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord<\/span> for His goodness,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd for His wonderful works to the children of men!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

9 <\/sup>For He satisfies the longing soul,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd fills the hungry soul with goodness.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

10\u00a0<\/sup>Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,<\/span><\/em>
\nBound in affliction and irons\u2014<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

11 <\/sup>Because they rebelled against the words of God,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd despised the counsel of the Most High,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

12 <\/sup>Therefore He brought down their heart with labor;<\/span><\/em>
\nThey fell down, and there was none to help.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

13 <\/sup>Then they cried out to the Lord<\/span> in their trouble,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd He saved them out of their distresses.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

14 <\/sup>He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd broke their chains in pieces.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

15 <\/sup>Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord<\/span> for His goodness,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd for His wonderful works to the children of men!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

16 <\/sup>For He has broken the gates of bronze,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd cut the bars of iron in two.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

17\u00a0<\/sup>Fools, because of their transgression,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd because of their iniquities, were afflicted.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

18 <\/sup>Their soul abhorred all manner of food,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd they drew near to the gates of death.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

19 <\/sup>Then they cried out to the Lord<\/span> in their trouble,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd He saved them out of their distresses.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

20 <\/sup>He sent His word and healed them,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd delivered them from their destructions.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

21 <\/sup>Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord<\/span> for His goodness,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd for His wonderful works to the children of men!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

22 <\/sup>Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd declare His works with rejoicing.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

23\u00a0<\/sup>Those who go down to the sea in ships,<\/span><\/em>
\nWho do business on great waters,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

24 <\/sup>They see the works of the Lord<\/span>,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd His wonders in the deep.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

25 <\/sup>For He commands and raises the stormy wind,<\/span><\/em>
\nWhich lifts up the waves of the sea.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

26 <\/sup>They mount up to the heavens,<\/span><\/em>
\nThey go down again to the depths;<\/span><\/em>
\nTheir soul melts because of trouble.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

27 <\/sup>They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd are at their wits\u2019 end.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

28 <\/sup>Then they cry out to the Lord<\/span> in their trouble,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd He brings them out of their distresses.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

29 <\/sup>He calms the storm,<\/span><\/em>
\nSo that its waves are still.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

30 <\/sup>Then they are glad because they are quiet;<\/span><\/em>
\nSo He guides them to their desired haven.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

31 <\/sup>Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord<\/span> for His goodness,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd for His wonderful works to the children of men!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

32 <\/sup>Let them exalt Him also in the assembly of the people,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd praise Him in the company of the elders.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

33\u00a0<\/sup>He turns rivers into a wilderness,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd the watersprings into dry ground;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

34 <\/sup>A fruitful land into barrenness,<\/span><\/em>
\nFor the wickedness of those who dwell in it.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

35 <\/sup>He turns a wilderness into pools of water,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd dry land into watersprings.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

36 <\/sup>There He makes the hungry dwell,<\/span><\/em>
\nThat they may establish a city for a dwelling place,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

37 <\/sup>And sow fields and plant vineyards,<\/span><\/em>
\nThat they may yield a fruitful harvest.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

38 <\/sup>He also blesses them, and they multiply greatly;<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd He does not let their cattle decrease.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

39\u00a0<\/sup>When they are diminished and brought low<\/span><\/em>
\nThrough oppression, affliction, and sorrow,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

40 <\/sup>He pours contempt on princes,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

41 <\/sup>Yet He sets the poor on high, far from affliction,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd makes their families like a flock.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

42 <\/sup>The righteous see it and rejoice,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd all iniquity stops its mouth.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
\n

43\u00a0<\/sup>Whoever is wise will observe these things,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd they will understand the lovingkindness of the Lord<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

It is thought that [this psalm] was composed for the first celebration of the feast of tabernacles, after the return from the exile [Isaiah 43:5-6; 56:8], when Israel was gathered as one man at Jerusalem, and sacrifices were offered (Ezra 3:1-3).<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Psalm begins with an exhortation to praise, on account of God’s gracious deeds: and in the following verses we are presented with four tableaux: Of the caravan in the wilderness (vs.4-9); of the prisoner (vs.10-16); of the sick (vs.17-22); of the mariner int he storm (vs.23-32). In each of these paragraphs there is a great similarity of order: first the trouble<\/em>, then the cry for help<\/em>, then the gracious deliverance<\/em>, and, lastly, the exhortation to give thanks<\/em>. After this, there is a glad reference to the restored nation (vs.33-43), which, in spite of the hate of its enemies, had been reinstated in its own land, and was already preparing to rebuild the Holy City. \u2014 Meyer, page 130.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Though the Hebrew text of this psalm has no heading, early Jewish tradition attributes it to David. Consistent with its placement at the beginning of the fifth and final of the “books” of the Psalms, this psalm focuses on\u2014and hence introduces\u2014the main theme of the fifth book, which, parallel to the fifth book of the Pentateuch (i.e., Deuteronomy), concerns the restoration of God’s people to the Promised Land and their living therein under the perfect and intimate rule of their divine King. …<\/span><\/h3>\n

In view of its theme, this psalm hold a central place in the Jewish liturgical-festal consciousness, being recited on the eve of Israeli Independence Day and, in the Sephardic (i.e., Oriental\/Eastern Jewish) traditions, on every day of Passover. \u2014 Wechsler, pages 254-255.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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This psalm\u2014and hence the Fifth Book of Psalms\u2014commences with the exhortation par excellence<\/em>, for praising God\u2014to wit: because His lovingkindness endures forever. This statement, which is the most repeated qualification of praise in the book of Psalms, occurs most often in this Fifth Book\u2014not surprisingly, since it is god’s lovingkindness more than anything else, that is represented by His regathering of Israel to their Land and consequent fulfillment of all that He promised to eventually do for them therein. That the psalmist is indeed envisioning the final<\/em>, complete<\/em>, and everlasting<\/em> fulfillment of all God’s promises (per the Abrahamic Covenant) both to and through Israel is evident from (1) the past tense, indicating that these actions are (as viewed from a prophetic perspective) completed, (2) the specific phraseology describing Israel’s gathering from all points of the compass, which hearkens to the prophetic phraseology elsewhere employed to describe Israel’s final regathering and redemption (cf. Isaiah 43:5-6; 56:12; Ezekiel 11:17; 20:33ff.); and (3) the specific use (in v.2a) of the term [translated] “redeemed,” signifying, as in Isaiah 35:9 and 62:12, both spiritual and physical redemption. \u2014 Wechsler, pages 255-256.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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In [verses 4-22] the psalmist takes up the theme of the manifestation of God’s lovingkindness in His chastisement of Israel. It is for this reason that, in the midst of his review of God’s chastisement of Israel from the Exodus generation (which “rebelled against the words of God\u2014v.11) to the Babylonian exile (see esp. v.20, employing the same specific phraseology applied to this exile as a means of divine chastisement\u2014e.g., in Lamentations 4:20; Hosea 7:1; 14:4), the psalmist exhorts his people to give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness (v.15)\u2014not only for redeeming them from the afflictions of those chastisements, but also for bringing those chastisements upon them in the first place (cf. Proverbs 3:11-12; Hebrews 12:4-11<\/span><\/a>). \u2014 Wechsler, pages 256-257<\/span><\/h3>\n

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In [verses 23-43], in keeping with the overall theme of this Fifth Book of Psalms, the psalmist moves on from focusing on God’s lovingkindness as expressed in the process of chastisement to focusing on God’s lovingkindness (vs.31, 43) as expressed in His preservation of Israel through their chastisement and, ultimately, His restoration of Israel to a better place\u2014both spiritually and materially\u2014than that which they left. In order to underscore the surety of God’s accomplishing this, the psalmist describes throughout this section God’s absolute dominion over nature (vs.23-38; and hence over any natural impediments to His people’s restoration) as well as over all human circumstances (vs.39-42; and hence over any political or social impediments). \u2014 Wechsler, page 257.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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