New King James Version
Psalms 107:12
12Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none 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.
- New International Version (NIV)So he subjected them to bitter labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with 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
10Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Bound in affliction and irons— 11Because they rebelled against the words of God, And despised the counsel of the Most High, Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none to help. 13Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He saved them out of their distresses. 14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their chains in pieces.
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וַיַּכְנַ֣ע בֶּעָמָ֣ל לִבָּ֑ם כָּ֝שְׁל֗וּ וְאֵ֣ין עֹזֵֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 107:12
- Exodus 2:23Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
- Exodus 5:18Therefore go now and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the quota of bricks.”
- Judges 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord. And His soul could no longer endure the misery of Israel.
- Judges 16:21Then the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze fetters, and he became a grinder in the prison.
- Nehemiah 9:37And it yields much increase to the kings You have set over us, Because of our sins; Also they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle At their pleasure; And we are in great distress.
- Isaiah 51:19These two things have come to you; Who will be sorry for you?— Desolation and destruction, famine and sword— By whom will I comfort you?
- Isaiah 52:5Now therefore, what have I here,” says the Lord, “That My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them Make them wail,” says the Lord, “And My name is blasphemed continually every day.
- Lamentations 5:5They pursue at our heels; We labor and have no rest.
- Luke 15:14But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.
- Psalms 18:40You have also given me the necks of my enemies, So that I destroyed those who hated me.
- Psalms 22:11Be not far from Me, For trouble is near; For there is none to help.
- Psalms 142:4Look on my right hand and see, For there is no one who acknowledges me; Refuge has failed me; No one cares for my soul.
- 2 Kings 6:26Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
- Job 9:13God will not withdraw His anger, The allies of the proud lie prostrate beneath Him.
- Isaiah 63:5I looked, but there was no one to help, And I wondered That there was no one to uphold; Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me; And My own fury, it 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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