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Psalms 107:40
40Then God causes the enemy's leaders to become ashamed. He makes them travel on roads that go nowhere.
Psalms 107:40 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
- New International Version (NIV)he who pours contempt on nobles made them wander in a trackless waste.
- English Standard Version (ESV)he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;
- New King James Version (NKJV)He pours contempt on princes, And causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way;
Context of Psalms 107:40
38He blesses them, so that they have many children. Their animals also grow in number. 39But they may become weak and few in number, because of cruel enemies who give them trouble. Then God causes the enemy's leaders to become ashamed. He makes them travel on roads that go nowhere. 41But for people who are poor and weak, he rescues them from their trouble. He gives them many children, so that they have big families. 42Good people see what God has done, and it makes them happy. Wicked people have nothing to say!
Read all of Psalms 107Psalms 107:40 word by word
שֹׁפֵ֣ךְ בּ֭וּז עַל־נְדִיבִ֑ים וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗ם בְּתֹ֣הוּ לֹא־דָֽרֶךְ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 107:40
- Job 12:21He causes rulers to be ashamed. He destroys the power of strong men.
- Isaiah 23:8It is a royal city and its traders are princes. They are famous everywhere on earth. So who decided to destroy it?
- Psalms 78:66He chased his enemies away. He caused them to be ashamed for ever.
- Exodus 8:3The Nile river will be full of frogs. The frogs will go into your house. They will jump into your bed. They will go into the houses of your servants. They will go into the houses of your people. They will jump into your ovens and into your dishes.
- Joshua 10:24When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he called the men of Israel to meet there. He said to the officers of his army, ‘Put your feet on the necks of these kings.’ They did as he told them.
- Judges 1:6The king ran away, but the Israelites caught him. They cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
- Judges 4:21But Heber's wife Jael got a tent peg and a hammer. Sisera was very tired and he was asleep. Jael used the hammer to hit the peg into the side of Sisera's head. The peg went through his head into the ground. Sisera died.
- 1 Samuel 5:9After they had moved the Covenant Box to Gath, the Lord punished the people in that city too. He made them all very afraid. He caused tumours to grow on them, young people as well as old people.
- 1 Samuel 6:4The people asked, ‘What offering should we send to their God, so that he will forgive us?’ The priests and magicians replied, ‘You must send gold images of five tumours and five mice. You must make five images of each one because the Philistines have five rulers. They have the same disease that all of you have.
- 1 Kings 21:19Say to Ahab, “This is what the Lord says to you: You have murdered a man. You have taken the dead man's field for yourself.” Then say to him, “This is what the Lord says: In the place where the dogs drank Naboth's blood from the ground, dogs will drink your blood. Yes, they will drink your blood there too!” ’
- 2 Kings 9:35But when they went out to bury her, not much of her body was still there. They found only her skull, her feet and her hands.
- Daniel 4:33Immediately the message given to Nebuchadnezzar really happened. People chased him away from the city. He ate grass as cows do. Dew from the sky made his body wet. His hair grew very long, like the feathers of an eagle. His feet became like a bird's feet.
- Daniel 5:5While they were doing that, the fingers of a human hand appeared. They wrote on the wall of the king's palace, near the light that stood in the room. The king watched the hand while it wrote.
- Acts 12:23Herod let the people praise him, instead of God. So, immediately, an angel of the Lord God caused him to become very ill. Worms ate his body and later he died.
- Revelation 19:18Eat the meat from the dead bodies of God's enemies! Come and eat the meat of kings, the meat of army captains and the meat of powerful men. Eat the meat of dead horses and the soldiers who ride them. Eat the meat of all kinds of people: slaves and free people, important people and ordinary people.’
- Psalms 107:4Some of them travelled through the wilderness on a road that went nowhere. They did not find any city to live in.
Commentaries on Psalms 107:40
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 40He poureth contempt upon princes - How many have lately been raised from nothing, and set upon thrones! And how many have been cast down from thrones, and reduced to nothing! And where are now those mighty troublers of the earth? On both sides they are in general gone to give an account of themselves to God. And what an account! Where there is no way - Who can consider the fate of the late emperor of the French, Napoleon, without seeing the hand of God in…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 40He poureth contempt upon princes - He treats them as if they were common people; he pays no regard in his providence to their station and rank. They are subjected to the same needs as others; they meet with reverses like others; they become captives like others; they sicken and die like others; they are laid in the grave like others; and, with the same offensiveness, they turn back to dust. Between monarchs and their subjects, masters and their slaves…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 33-43Verses 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 increase, whose beginning was small. We see many who have thus suddenly risen, as suddenly brought to nothing. Worldly wealth is uncertain; often those who are filled with it, ere they are aware, lose it again. God has many ways of making men poor. The…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 40The Lord rejects human rulers who act unjustly. He corrects their wrongdoing and brings justice on the earth.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33-4133-41. He turneth rivers into a wilderness, &c.--God's providence is illustriously displayed in His influence on two great elements of human prosperity, the earth's productiveness and the powers of government. He punishes the wicked by destroying the sources of fertility, or, in mercy, gives fruitfulness to deserts, which become the homes of a busy and successful agricultural population. By a permitted misrule and tyranny, this scene of prosperity is…Read the comment
In the dictionaries
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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