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Psalms 107:12
12So he subjected them to bitter labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
Psalms 107:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none to help.
- New Living Translation (NLT)That is why he broke them with hard labor; they fell, and no one was there to help them.
Context of Psalms 107:12
10Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains, 11because they rebelled against God’s commands and despised the plans of the Most High. So he subjected them to bitter labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help. 13Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. 14He brought them out of darkness, the utter darkness, and broke away their chains.
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וַיַּכְנַ֣ע בֶּעָמָ֣ל לִבָּ֑ם כָּ֝שְׁל֗וּ וְאֵ֣ין עֹזֵֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 107:12
- Exodus 2:23During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
- Exodus 5:18Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.”
- Judges 10:16Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the Lord. And he could bear Israel’s misery no longer.
- Judges 16:21Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.
- Nehemiah 9:37Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress.
- Isaiah 51:19These double calamities have come upon you— who can comfort you?— ruin and destruction, famine and sword— who can console you?
- Isaiah 52:5“And now what do I have here?” declares the Lord. “For my people have been taken away for nothing, and those who rule them mock,” declares the Lord. “And all day long my name is constantly blasphemed.
- Lamentations 5:5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.
- Luke 15:14After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.
- Psalms 18:40You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes.
- Psalms 22:11Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
- Psalms 142:4Look and see, there is no one at my right hand; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life.
- 2 Kings 6:26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
- Job 9:13God does not restrain his anger; even the cohorts of Rahab cowered at his feet.
- Isaiah 63:5I looked, but there was no one to help, I was appalled that no one gave support; so my own arm achieved salvation for me, and my own wrath sustained me.
Commentaries on Psalms 107:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12He brought down their heart with labor - He delivered them into the hands of their enemies. and, as they would not be under subjection to God, he delivered them into slavery to wicked men: "So they fell down, and there was none to help;" God had forsaken them because they had forsaken him.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Therefore he brought down their heart - Their pride; their self-sufficiency; their self-complacency. They thought that they could do without God; they relied on their own resources, and were self-satisfied; but God showed them that all this was vain, and humbled them, as he often does the proud, in the dust. With labour - With trouble; with affliction; with disappointment; with reverses; with sorrow. The Hebrew word - עמל ‛âmâl - would include all this…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-16Verses 10-16 This description of prisoners and captives intimates that they are desolate and sorrowful. In the eastern prisons the captives were and are treated with much severity. Afflicting providences must be improved as humbling providences; and we lose the benefit, if our hearts are unhumbled and unbroken under them. This is a shadow of the sinner's deliverance from a far worse confinement. The awakened sinner discovers his guilt and misery. Having…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12Exhausted from their hard work (Lamentations 5:13), the people stumbled. While this might be expected of the wicked (Psalms 9:3; 27:2), it was different from the Israelites' escape from Egypt (105:37).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1610-16. Their sufferings were for their rebellion against (Psa 105:28) the words, or purposes, or promises, of God for their benefit. When humbled they cry to God, who delivers them from bondage, described as a dark dungeon with doors and bars of metal, in which they are bound in iron--that is, chains and fetters. shadow of death--darkness with danger (Psa 23:4).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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