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Psalms 107:7
And He led them forth by the right way, the true and proper road leading to deliverance, that they might go to a city of habitation, the reference being to Palestine, and specifically Jerusalem.
And He led them forth by the right way, the true and proper road leading to deliverance, that they might go to a city of habitation, the reference being to Palestine, and specifically Jerusalem.
Verse Psalms 107:7. _THAT THEY MIGHT GO TO A CITY OF HABITATION._] God stirred up the heart of _Cyrus_ to give them liberty to return to their own land: and _Zerubbabel, Ezra_, and _Nehemiah_, at diff...
AND HE LED THEM FORTH BY THE RIGHT WAY - A literal version, if the term necessary to express it might be allowable, would be,” He wayed them in a straight way;” he made a way for them, and that was a...
THE DEUTERONOMY SECTION: BOOK FIVE: PSALM 107-150 The final section of the book of Psalms, the fifth, is just like Deuteronomy. It shows God's ways with Israel, the end of these ways in deliverance n...
BOOK V. PSS. CVII.- CL. CVII. A Psalm of Thanksgiving for Yahweh's Special Goodness. It is divided at Psalms 107:8 f., Psalms 107:15 f., Psalms 107:21 f.,...
HE LED THEM FORTH. When this is the case, the way is always "right". THE RIGHT WAY. Because it is His way: not the shortest, or most direct, or most pleasant; but it is the way of Grace and Favour. I...
THE PSALMS BOOK THE FIFTH[474] [474] See Table II., _ante._ PSALMS 107 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Examples of Men's Straits, leading to Prayer; and of Jehovah's Deliverance, calling for Praise. ANALYSIS...
And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. AND HE LED THEM FORTH BY THE RIGHT WAY, THAT THEY MIGHT GO TO A CITY OF HABITATION - contrasted with their previo...
BOOK 5 This book, which seems originally to have been joined with Book 4, contains forty-four Pss., the vast majority of which are of late date. The contents of these Pss. are a surer guide to the per...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ INTRODUCTION Here are some of the things that you should know as you read the psalms in this book. 1. At the top of each psalm (say it "sarm") is a title in DARK...
(4-9) The wanderers....
BY THE RIGHT WAY. — Better, _in a straight way._ Even in the pathless wilderness “there is a hand that guides.”...
וַ֭ יַּֽדְרִיכֵם בְּ דֶ֣רֶךְ יְשָׁרָ֑ה לָ֝ לֶ
Psalms 107:1 NOTWITHSTANDING the division of Books which separates Psalm evil from the two preceding, it is a pendant to these. The "gathering from among the heathen" prayed for in Psalms 106:41 has h...
WE now begin the fifth and last book of the Psalter. In this book the music is richest and fullest. It begins in this psalm on the fundamental notes, and rises through major and minor, by the way of t...
_That. See Psalm lix. 7. (Worthington)_...
How very beautifully does this special call to the redeemed come in after the former verse! Pause, Reader! Pause, my soul! What sayest thou to this subject? Are we among the redeemed? Hath sovereign g...
_THE RIGHT ROAD_ “He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.’ Psalms 107:7 Who is He who led them, and still leads us, His faithful people, by the right way? Sur...
BOOK 5 - PSALMS 107-150 In the fifth Book the people are looked at as brought back, and a general survey of God's ways taken, with a kind of divine commentary on it all, ending, as all His ways surel...
AND HE LED THEM FORTH BY THE RIGHT WAY,.... Thus God by his providence directs travellers that have lost their way, and puts them into the right way. There is no doubt a very great concern of Providen...
And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. Ver. 7. _And he led them forth by the right way_] Better than that Dea Vibilia among the Romans, of whom they fanci...
_They wandered in the wilderness_ Where there was no trodden path, no company, but _a solitary way. They found no city to dwell in_ Or rather, _no inhabited city_, or town, no lodging; no conveniences...
1-9 In these verses there is reference to the deliverance from Egypt, and perhaps that from Babylon: but the circumstances of travellers in those countries are also noted. It is scarcely possible to...
LED THEM FORTH out of the wilderness, where they had lost their way, PSALMS 107:4. A CITY OF HABITATION: SEE POOLE ON "PSALMS 107:4"....
Psalms 107:7 forth H1869 (H8686) right H3477 way H1870 go H3212 (H8800) city H5892 place H4186 he l
Psalms 107:7 Notice one or two particular features of the leadings in the wilderness. I. The Israelites had a very little way to go, and they were a very long time about it. What seemed a matter of...
The psalmist exhorteth the redeemed, in praising God, to observe the different forms of his mercy. He views the chosen people as travelers, captives, sick men, and seamen, and in each of these classes...
Psalms 107:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ Because we are sinners God's goodness takes the form of mercy. Mercy this was what we wanted; therefore,...
Psalms 107:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ In the heading of this Psalm we are reminded that the psalmist here exhorts the redeemed, in praising God...
CONTENTS: God's wisdom, power and goodness celebrated. Man's deplorable forgetfulness of His mercies. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Those who have no special matter for praise may furnish t...
This psalm begins the fifth and last book of the Hebrew psalter. It is divided into five parts or pauses, as it would seem, in the singing and the music. The character of the composition, though diver...
_O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy en-dureth for ever._ MEN AND MERCY I. Men consciously needing the mercy of Heaven. Morally, we are all distressed travellers, captives, in...
_He led them forth by the right way._ THE WAY AND GUIDE TO HEAVEN I. The end for which the people of God were led forth from Egypt was that “they might come to a city of habitation”; in other words,...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 107:4 This is the first group of those who were banished from the land as a result of the exile. SOME of the exiles WANDERED IN DESERT WASTES, such as the Sinai Desert (see...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 107:1. With this psalm the members of the community call one another to give thanks for God’s enduring “steadfast love.” He has shown this to the people as a whole but also...
INTRODUCTION Many expositors are of opinion that this Psalm was written to celebrate the return of the Jews from the Babylonian exile. This opinion is based chiefly on Psalms 107:2. But the Psalm as a...
EXPOSITION A SONG of thanksgiving, first for deliverance from the Babylonish captivity (Psalms 107:1), and then for other deliverances (Psalms 107:4), passing into a general account of God's provident...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 107:1-43. The hundred and seventh psalm begins with an exhortation to us to Give thanks unto the LORD (Psalms 107:1), And the basis for the thanksgiving is His...
2 Peter 2:15; 2 Peter 2:21; Ezra 8:21; Hebrews 11:10; Hebrews 11:16;
Forth — Out of the wilderness....