English Standard Version
Psalms 107:39
39When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, evil, and sorrow,
Psalms 107:39 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
- New International Version (NIV)Then their numbers decreased, and they were humbled by oppression, calamity and sorrow;
- New King James Version (NKJV)When they are diminished and brought low Through oppression, affliction, and sorrow,
- New Living Translation (NLT)When they decrease in number and become impoverished through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,
Context of Psalms 107:39
37they sow fields and plant vineyards and get a fruitful yield. 38By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their livestock diminish. When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, evil, and sorrow, 40he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes; 41but he raises up the needy out of affliction and makes their families like flocks.
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וַיִּמְעֲט֥וּ וַיָּשֹׁ֑חוּ מֵעֹ֖צֶר רָעָ֣ה וְיָגֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 107:39
- Psalms 30:6As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
- Genesis 45:11There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.'
- Ruth 1:20She said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
- 1 Samuel 2:5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.
- 2 Kings 4:8One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.
- 2 Kings 8:3And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.
- Job 1:10Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
- Exodus 1:13So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves
- Exodus 2:23During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
- Judges 6:3For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
- 2 Kings 10:32In those days the Lord began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:
- 2 Kings 13:7For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
- 2 Kings 14:26For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 15:5In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.
- Jeremiah 51:33For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come."
Commentaries on Psalms 107:39
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 39Again, 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 began in 1775, and was not ended till 1783! And what desolations, minishings, and ruin have been brought on the fertile empires of Europe by the war which commenced in 1792, and did not end till 1814! And how many millions of lives have been sacrificed in it, and souls sent unprepared…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 39Again, 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 reverses, they occur under his hand. People are not always prosperous. There are changes, misfortunes, disappointments, sorrows. God so deals with the race as in the bests manner to secure the recognition of himself: not always sending prosperity, lest people…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. 39People often become poor when their leaders are oppressive.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
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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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