New English Translation
Psalms 107:39
39As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.
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;
- English Standard Version (ESV)When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, evil, and sorrow,
- New King James Version (NKJV)When they are diminished and brought low Through oppression, affliction, and sorrow,
Context of Psalms 107:39
37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit. 38He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number. As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering. 40He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road. 41Yet he protected the needy from oppression, and cared for his families like a flock of sheep.
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וַיִּמְעֲט֥וּ וַיָּשֹׁ֑חוּ מֵעֹ֖צֶר רָעָ֣ה וְיָגֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 107:39
- Psalms 30:6In my self-confidence I said, “I will never be upended.”
- Genesis 45:11I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor – you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.”’
- Ruth 1:20But she replied to them, “Don’t call me ‘Naomi’! Call me ‘Mara’ because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.
- 1 Samuel 2:5Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.
- 2 Kings 4:8One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.
- 2 Kings 8:3After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field.
- Job 1:10Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.
- Exodus 1:13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.
- Exodus 2:23During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.
- Judges 6:3Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.
- 2 Kings 10:32In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel’s territory. Hazael attacked their eastern border.
- 2 Kings 13:7Jehoahaz had no army left except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers. The king of Syria had destroyed his troops and trampled on them like dust.
- 2 Kings 14:26The Lord saw Israel’s intense suffering; everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer.
- 2 Chronicles 15:5In those days no one could travel safely, for total chaos had overtaken all the people of the surrounding lands.
- Jeremiah 51:33For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘Fair Babylon will be like a threshing floor which has been trampled flat for harvest. The time for her to be cut down and harvested will come very soon.’
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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