Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 107:39
(s) Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
(s) As God by his providence exalts man, so he also humbles them by afflictions to know themselves.
(s) Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
(s) As God by his providence exalts man, so he also humbles them by afflictions to know themselves.
Verse Psalms 107:39. _AGAIN, THEY ARE MINISHED_] Sometimes by war, or pestilence, or famine. How minished and brought low was the country already spoken of, by the long and destructive war which bega...
AGAIN, THEY ARE MINISHED ... - literally, “And they are made to decrease.” That is - all is in the hand of God. He rules and directs all things. If there is prosperity, it comes from him; if there are...
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.,...
AGAIN, &C. So far from the transition from Psalms 107:38 being "inexplicable", or Psalms 107:40 being an "interpolation", the perfection of the repetition of the subject ("judgment") is shown by the S...
AGAIN, THEY ARE MINISHED AND BROUGHT LOW— _Whereas the others are diminished and brought low, by drought, suffering, and sorrow._ The _others_ mean those referred to in the 33rd and 34th verses....
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...
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...
AGAIN] better, 'and when'; but the v. is abrupt and the connexion obscure....
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...
וַ יִּמְעֲט֥וּ וַ יָּשֹׁ֑חוּ מֵ עֹ֖צֶר רָעָ֣ה
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...
THE “LOVING-KINDNESSES OF THE LORD” Psalms 107:33 The measure changes here. From Psalms 107:33 the psalmist drops the refrain and describes, not deliverance from peril or pain, but the sudden alterna...
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...
From the wonders of redeeming grace upon the mighty waters, the Psalmist makes a transition to the dry and barren land of the wilderness, whence he takes occasion to set forth another striking represe...
39._Afterwards they are lessened _Ere I enter upon the consideration of the truths contained in this verse, I must make some brief verbal observations. Some make the word עוצר _, otser, _to signify _t...
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...
AGAIN THEY ARE MINISHED,.... Or "lessened", in their families, cattle, and substance; either the same persons as before, or others. The Targum paraphrases it, "but when they sin, they are lessened:''...
Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. Ver. 39. _Again, they are minished_] _Minorati sunt._ This also is of the Lord, who hath treasuries of plagues, an...
_Again they are minished_ When they prove ungrateful to him who had enriched and exalted them, and grow proud, insolent, and secure, as the manner of men is, he quite alters the course of his providen...
Again, they are minished, their prosperity being reduced by adverse circumstances, AND BROUGHT LOW THROUGH OPPRESSION, AFFLICTION, AND SORROW, brought upon them on account of the jealousy of those in...
The final paragraph refers to such as are suffering under misrule and tyranny....
33-43 What surprising changes are often made in the affairs of men! Let the present desolate state of Judea, and of other countries, explain this. If we look abroad in the world, we see many greatly...
THEY, these poor men, who, when they are exalted and blessed by God, kick at him, and grow insolent and secure, as the returner of men is, ARE MINISHED AND BROUGHT LOW; are by God's just judgment dimi...
Psalms 107:39 diminished H4591 (H8799) low H7817 (H8799) oppression H6115 affliction H7451 sorrow H3015 they are -...
Psalms 107:33. _He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein._ Hearken unto this, ye who a...
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...
_He turneth rivers into a wilderness._ GOD’S MANAGEMENT OF MAN UPON THE EARTH I. It involves great revolutions. 1. In the secular department (Psalms 107:33). Sodom’s fertile soil was smitten with b...
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 107:33 God displayed his righteousness by restoring Judah after the exile. ⇐ ⇔
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...
1 Samuel 2:5; 2 Chronicles 15:5; 2 Chronicles 15:6; 2 Kings 10:32;...
They — These men, who when they are exalted by God, grow insolent and secure. Low — By God's just judgment....