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Psalms 107:2
2Everyone that the Lord has rescued should tell others. Tell them how he has rescued you from the enemy's power.
Psalms 107:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
- New International Version (NIV)Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story— those he redeemed from the hand of the foe,
- English Standard Version (ESV)Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble
- New King James Version (NKJV)Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,
Context of Psalms 107:2
1Thank the Lord because he is good. His faithful love for his people continues for ever. Everyone that the Lord has rescued should tell others. Tell them how he has rescued you from the enemy's power. 3He brought his people from foreign countries. He brought them together from the east and the west, from the north, and from the south. 4Some of them travelled through the wilderness on a road that went nowhere. They did not find any city to live in.
Read all of Psalms 107Psalms 107:2 word by word
יֹ֭אמְרוּ גְּאוּלֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר גְּ֝אָלָ֗ם מִיַּד־צָֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 107:2
- Psalms 31:5I put my life into your hands. I know that you will save me, Lord, because you are a God that I can trust.
- Psalms 130:8He will save Israel's people from all their sins.
- Exodus 15:16They will all be afraid. Because of your great power they will want to run away. But they cannot move! They will remain still, like stones, until your people go on past them. They will stand and watch as the people you have saved, Lord, pass by.
- Deuteronomy 15:15Remember that you were once slaves in Egypt. But the Lord your God rescued you from there. This is why I am giving you this command today.
- Isaiah 35:9No lions will be there. No dangerous wild animals will come onto it. They will not come near to it. It is the people that the Lord has rescued who will travel on that road.
- Isaiah 43:1Israelites, descendants of Jacob, the Lord created you, and he made you who you are. Now he says this to you: ‘Do not be afraid, I have rescued you to belong to me. I have called you by your name, so now you are mine.
- Isaiah 44:22I have removed the guilt of your sins, like the wind blows away a cloud. When you turned against me, I have quickly forgiven you. Return to me now, because I have rescued you.’
- Luke 1:68‘The Lord God of Israel is a great God. He has come to save his people. He has come to make them free.
- Luke 24:21But before that we had hoped that he would save the people of Israel. We hoped that he would make us free again. There are other things too. Today is the third day since Jesus died.
- Galatians 3:13So God's Law shows that it is right for God to punish us. But Christ took that punishment away from us, because God punished him instead of us. It says in the Bible: ‘When people hang someone on a tree to kill him, it shows that God has cursed that person.’
- 1 Peter 1:18Your ancestors lived in a way that did not make them really happy. That is the way that you learned to live as well. But now God has saved you from that way of life. You know that he has bought you for himself. He did not buy you with things that do not continue for ever, like silver or gold.
- Psalms 106:10He rescued them from the people who hated them. He saved them from their enemy's power.
- Deuteronomy 7:8Instead, it was because of the Lord's love for you. Also, he had made a serious promise to your ancestors and he was faithful to that promise. So he used his great power to bring you out of Egypt, where you were slaves. He rescued you from the power of Pharaoh, Egypt's king.
- Jeremiah 15:21‘I will rescue you from the power of those wicked people. I will keep you safe from those cruel people.’
- Jeremiah 31:11Yes, the Lord will rescue Jacob's descendants. He will pay the cost to let them be free. They will no longer be under the power of people who were stronger than them.
- Micah 4:10People in Zion, you will have a lot of pain, like a woman who is giving birth to a baby. She rolls about and she screams with pain. Soon you will have to leave your city and you will have to live in the fields. You will have to go to Babylon, but there the Lord will save you. He will make you free again from the authority of your enemies.
Commentaries on Psalms 107:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Let the redeemed of the Lord say so - For they have had the fullest proof of this goodness, in being saved by the continuing stream of his mercy.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Let the redeemed of the Lord say so - They are especially qualified to say so; they have special occasion to say so; they can and will appreciate this trait in his character. The word rendered “redeemed” here - from גאל gā'al - means “delivered, rescued,” without reference to any price paid for the deliverance. It refers here not to a ransom from “sin,” but to deliverance from “danger.” The probable allusion is to the deliverance from the captivity in…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2The redeemed might be all who came out of exile.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-431-2. This call for thankful praise is the burden or chorus (compare Psa 107:8, 15, &c.).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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