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Psalms 107:39
39Then their numbers decreased, and they were humbled by oppression, calamity and sorrow;
Psalms 107:39 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, 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,
- New Living Translation (NLT)When they decrease in number and become impoverished through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,
Context of Psalms 107:39
37They sowed fields and planted vineyards that yielded a fruitful harvest; 38he blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased, and he did not let their herds diminish. Then their numbers decreased, and they were humbled by oppression, calamity and sorrow; 40he who pours contempt on nobles made them wander in a trackless waste. 41But he lifted the needy out of their affliction and increased 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 30:6When I felt secure, I said, “I will never be shaken.”
- Genesis 45:11I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’
- Ruth 1:20“Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.
- 1 Samuel 2:5Those who were full hire themselves out for food, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. She who was barren has borne seven children, but she who has had many sons pines away.
- 2 Kings 4:8One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat.
- 2 Kings 8:3At the end of the seven years she came back from the land of the Philistines and went to appeal to the king for her house and land.
- Job 1:10“Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.
- Exodus 1:13and worked them ruthlessly.
- 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.
- Judges 6:3Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country.
- 2 Kings 10:32In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael overpowered the Israelites throughout their territory
- 2 Kings 13:7Nothing had been left of the army of Jehoahaz except fifty horsemen, ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed the rest and made them like the dust at threshing time.
- 2 Kings 14:26The Lord had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free, was suffering; there was no one to help them.
- 2 Chronicles 15:5In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil.
- Jeremiah 51:33This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled; the time to harvest her will soon 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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