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Psalms 107:3
3He brought his people from foreign countries. He brought them together from the east and the west, from the north, and from the south.
Psalms 107:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
- New International Version (NIV)those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.
- English Standard Version (ESV)and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south.
Context of Psalms 107:3
1Thank the Lord because he is good. His faithful love for his people continues for ever. 2Everyone that the Lord has rescued should tell others. Tell them how he has rescued you from the enemy's power. He 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. 5They were hungry and thirsty. They were very weak and nearly dead.
Read all of Psalms 107Psalms 107:3 word by word
וּֽמֵאֲרָצ֗וֹת קִ֫בְּצָ֥ם מִמִּזְרָ֥ח וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֑ב מִצָּפ֥וֹן וּמִיָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 107:3
- Psalms 106:47Lord, our God, please save us! Bring us safely home from among the other nations. Then we will thank you! We will shout aloud to praise your holy name.
- Isaiah 11:11And on that day, the Lord God will bring his people back once again. He will lift up his powerful hand to rescue his people who are still alive. He will bring them back from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath and from countries near the sea.
- Isaiah 43:5I am with you, so do not be afraid. I will bring your descendants from the east. I will also bring you together from the west.
- Isaiah 49:12Look! People will return to the land from places that are far away. Yes, some of them will come from the north and from the west. And some will come from the land of Sinim.’
- Jeremiah 29:14I will be there for you.’ That is what the Lord says. ‘I will bring you back from the nations and all the places where I sent you as prisoners. You will no longer have to live in those foreign places.’
- Jeremiah 31:8See what I will do! I will bring them back from the land in the north. Wherever they are, I will bring them back. A great crowd of my people will return. Blind people will be among them, and people who cannot walk well. There will be pregnant women and some who will very soon give birth.
- Ezekiel 36:24I will take you out from the nations and all the foreign countries where you have been living. I will bring you back to your own land.
- Ezekiel 39:27I will bring them back from the lands where their enemies took them. The nations will see what I have done. So all the nations will know that I am holy.
- Revelation 5:9The beings that are alive and the leaders sang a new song. They sang: ‘You are so good! You are good enough to take the book. You can break its seals and open it. You can do this because they killed you. When you died, you bought people for God with your blood. You bought them from every tribe, from every language and every nation.
Commentaries on Psalms 107:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3And gathered them out of the lands - Though many Jews returned into Jerusalem from various parts of the world, under the reigns of Darius Hystaspes, Artaxerxes, and Alexander the Great; yet this prophecy has its completion only under the Gospel, when all the ends of the earth hear the salvation of God.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3And gathered them out of the lands - The countries where they were scattered. In the times of the captivity the people were not all taken to one place, or did not all abide in one place. In the long exile - of seventy years - in Babylon, they would naturally be much scattered in the different provinces; and the attempt to collect them together, to restore them again to their native land, might be attended with much difficulty. From the east - From all…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3People came from all nations where the people of Israel and Judah had been scattered.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. gathered--alluding to the dispersion of captives throughout the Babylonian empire. from the south--literally, "the sea," or, Red Sea (Psa 114:3), which was on the south.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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