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Psalms 107:12
12He broke their spirits with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
Psalms 107:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
- New International Version (NIV)So he subjected them to bitter labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none to help.
Context of Psalms 107:12
10Others sat in darkness and gloom — prisoners in cruel chains — 11because they rebelled against God’s commands and despised the counsel of the Most High. He broke their spirits with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help. 13Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble; he saved them from their distress. 14He brought them out of darkness and gloom and broke their chains apart.
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וַיַּכְנַ֣ע בֶּעָמָ֣ל לִבָּ֑ם כָּ֝שְׁל֗וּ וְאֵ֣ין עֹזֵֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 107:12
- Exodus 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, they cried out, and their cry for help because of the difficult labor ascended to God.
- Exodus 5:18Now get to work. No straw will be given to you, but you must produce the same quantity of bricks.”
- Judges 10:16So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped the Lord, and he became weary of Israel’s misery.
- Judges 16:21The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he was forced to grind grain in the prison.
- Nehemiah 9:37Its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have set over us, because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.
- Isaiah 51:19These two things have happened to you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? How can I comfort you?
- Isaiah 52:5So now what have I here” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “that my people are taken away for nothing? Its rulers wail” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “and my name is continually blasphemed all day long.
- Lamentations 5:5We are closely pursued; we are tired, and no one offers us rest.
- Luke 15:14After he had spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he had nothing.
- Psalms 18:40You have made my enemies retreat before me; I annihilate those who hate me.
- Psalms 22:11Don’t be far from me, because distress is near and there’s no one to help.
- Psalms 142:4Look to the right and see: no one stands up for me; there is no refuge for me; no one cares about me.
- 2 Kings 6:26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “My lord the king, help!”
- Job 9:13God does not hold back his anger; Rahab’s assistants cringe in fear beneath him!
- Isaiah 63:5I looked, but there was no one to help, and I was amazed that no one assisted; so my arm accomplished victory for me, and my wrath assisted me.
Commentaries on Psalms 107:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12He brought down their heart with labor - He delivered them into the hands of their enemies. and, as they would not be under subjection to God, he delivered them into slavery to wicked men: "So they fell down, and there was none to help;" God had forsaken them because they had forsaken him.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Therefore he brought down their heart - Their pride; their self-sufficiency; their self-complacency. They thought that they could do without God; they relied on their own resources, and were self-satisfied; but God showed them that all this was vain, and humbled them, as he often does the proud, in the dust. With labour - With trouble; with affliction; with disappointment; with reverses; with sorrow. The Hebrew word - עמל ‛âmâl - would include all this…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-16Verses 10-16 This description of prisoners and captives intimates that they are desolate and sorrowful. In the eastern prisons the captives were and are treated with much severity. Afflicting providences must be improved as humbling providences; and we lose the benefit, if our hearts are unhumbled and unbroken under them. This is a shadow of the sinner's deliverance from a far worse confinement. The awakened sinner discovers his guilt and misery. Having…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12Exhausted from their hard work (Lamentations 5:13), the people stumbled. While this might be expected of the wicked (Psalms 9:3; 27:2), it was different from the Israelites' escape from Egypt (105:37).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1610-16. Their sufferings were for their rebellion against (Psa 105:28) the words, or purposes, or promises, of God for their benefit. When humbled they cry to God, who delivers them from bondage, described as a dark dungeon with doors and bars of metal, in which they are bound in iron--that is, chains and fetters. shadow of death--darkness with danger (Psa 23:4).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 107
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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