Psalms 107:1-43

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 to individual members. The distinctive feature of this psalm is its four accounts of people in distress (“some,” vv. Psalms 107:4, Psalms 107:10, Psalms 107:17, Psalms 107:23), whom God rescued. Because the psalm concerns gratitude for Judah’s return from exile (v. Psalms 107:3), it is likely that these four accounts describe the activities of the Judahites in their exile. After the initial invitation to “give thanks to the LORD” (v. Psalms 107:1), the psalm describes how each of the four groups cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them. The psalm calls on them to thank the Lord.