Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 107:12
Their heart; the pride, and rebellion, and obstinacy of their hearts. With labour; or, with trouble or troubles. They fell into their enemy's hands, and into hopeless and remediless miseries.
Their heart; the pride, and rebellion, and obstinacy of their hearts. With labour; or, with trouble or troubles. They fell into their enemy's hands, and into hopeless and remediless miseries.
Verse Psalms 107:12. _HE BROUGHT DOWN THEIR HEART WITH LABOUR_] 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...
THEREFORE 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-sati...
THE DEUTERONOMY SECTION: BOOK FIVE: PSALM 107-150 The final section of the book of Psalms, the fifth, is just like Deuteronomy. It shows God's ways with Israel, the end of these ways in deliverance n...
BOOK V. PSS. CVII.- CL. CVII. A Psalm of Thanksgiving for Yahweh's Special Goodness. It is divided at Psalms 107:8 f., Psalms 107:15 f., Psalms 107:21 f.,...
NONE TO HELP. no sign of. helper....
THE PSALMS BOOK THE FIFTH[474] [474] See Table II., _ante._ PSALMS 107 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Examples of Men's Straits, leading to Prayer; and of Jehovah's Deliverance, calling for Praise. ANALYSIS...
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help. THEREFORE HE BROUGHT DOWN THEIR HEART WITH LABOUR. Their heart had been proud and rebellious. The Lor...
107:12 labour; (a-8) Or 'pain,' 'anguish.'...
BOOK 5 This book, which seems originally to have been joined with Book 4, contains forty-four Pss., the vast majority of which are of late date. The contents of these Pss. are a surer guide to the per...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ INTRODUCTION Here are some of the things that you should know as you read the psalms in this book. 1. At the top of each psalm (say it "sarm") is a title in DARK...
(10-16) The prisoners....
BROUGHT DOWN. — Literally, _made them bend._ FELL DOWN. — Better, _stumbled._ The whole verse presents a picture of men staggering under the forced labour which was the usual fate of captives under...
וַ יַּכְנַ֣ע בֶּ † עָמָ֣ל לִבָּ֑ם כָּ֝שְׁל֗וּ...
Psalms 107:1 NOTWITHSTANDING the division of Books which separates Psalm evil from the two preceding, it is a pendant to these. The "gathering from among the heathen" prayed for in Psalms 106:41 has h...
WE now begin the fifth and last book of the Psalter. In this book the music is richest and fullest. It begins in this psalm on the fundamental notes, and rises through major and minor, by the way of t...
Here is another striking representation, whether considered with respect to God's providence or his grace, to show the miseries of our nature by the fall. How do souls groan in their prison-houses! Wh...
BOOK 5 - PSALMS 107-150 In the fifth Book the people are looked at as brought back, and a general survey of God's ways taken, with a kind of divine commentary on it all, ending, as all His ways surel...
THEREFORE HE BROUGHT DOWN THEIR HEART WITH LABOUR,.... Humbled them under his mighty hand; brought down their haughty spirits and proud stomachs by one afflictive providence or another; by which the L...
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and [there was] none to help. Ver. 12. _Therefore he brought down their heart_] That proud piece of flesh, _Quod erat elatum et verb...
_Such as sit in darkness_, &c. In a disconsolate and forlorn condition, in dark prisons or dungeons; _bound in affliction and iron_ In afflicting or grievous irons: or, _in the cords of affliction_, a...
The second paragraph treats of captives....
therefore He brought down their heart with labor, humiliating them by means of the distress which He laid upon them; THEY FELL DOWN, AND THERE WAS NONE TO HELP, it being the aim of God to bring them t...
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 mu...
Psalms 107:12 down H3665 (H8686) heart H3820 labor H5999 down H3782 (H8804) help H5826 (H8802) h
The psalmist exhorteth the redeemed, in praising God, to observe the different forms of his mercy. He views the chosen people as travelers, captives, sick men, and seamen, and in each of these classes...
Psalms 107:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ Because we are sinners God's goodness takes the form of mercy. Mercy this was what we wanted; therefore,...
Psalms 107:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ In the heading of this Psalm we are reminded that the psalmist here exhorts the redeemed, in praising God...
CONTENTS: God's wisdom, power and goodness celebrated. Man's deplorable forgetfulness of His mercies. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Those who have no special matter for praise may furnish t...
This psalm begins the fifth and last book of the Hebrew psalter. It is divided into five parts or pauses, as it would seem, in the singing and the music. The character of the composition, though diver...
_O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy en-dureth for ever._ MEN AND MERCY I. Men consciously needing the mercy of Heaven. Morally, we are all distressed travellers, captives, in...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 107:1. With this psalm the members of the community call one another to give thanks for God’s enduring “steadfast love.” He has shown this to the people as a whole but also...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 107:10 The next group of exiles SAT IN DARKNESS AND IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH. These people suffered as captives (PRISONERS) and forced laborers (HARD LABOR,
INTRODUCTION Many expositors are of opinion that this Psalm was written to celebrate the return of the Jews from the Babylonian exile. This opinion is based chiefly on Psalms 107:2. But the Psalm as a...
EXPOSITION A SONG of thanksgiving, first for deliverance from the Babylonish captivity (Psalms 107:1), and then for other deliverances (Psalms 107:4), passing into a general account of God's provident...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 107:1-43. The hundred and seventh psalm begins with an exhortation to us to Give thanks unto the LORD (Psalms 107:1), And the basis for the thanksgiving is His...
2 Kings 6:26; 2 Kings 6:27; 2 Kings 6:33; Exodus 2:23; Exodus 5:18;...
Heart — The pride and obstinacy of their hearts. Fell — They fell into hopeless miseries....