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Verse Psalms 107:40. _HE POURETH CONTEMPT UPON PRINCES_] How many have
lately been raised from _nothing_, and set upon thrones! And how many
have been cast down from thrones, and reduced to nothing! A...
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HE POURETH CONTEMPT UPON PRINCES - He treats them as if they were
common people; he pays no regard in his providence to their station
and rank. They are subjected to the same needs as others; they mee...
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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...
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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.,...
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IN THE WILDERNESS, WHERE THERE IS NO WAY. a pathless waste.
WILDERNESS. Hebrew. _tohu._ Rendered "without form" in Genesis 1:2,
describing what "the world that then was" had become by the
disruption....
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HE POURETH CONTEMPT UPON PRINCES— This and the two following verses
contain an opposition which seems to point to Pharaoh and the children
of Israel. Pharaoh was _brought to shame, and made to wander...
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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...
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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...
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Quoted from Job 12:21; Job 12:24. It interrupts the connexion, and by
some is omitted.
41. Cp. Job 21:11 : 'He set the needy on high from (above) affliction,
and established (for him) families as a f...
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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...
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שֹׁפֵ֣ךְ בּ֭וּז עַל ־נְדִיבִ֑ים וַ֝
יַּתְעֵ֗ם...
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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...
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THE “LOVING-KINDNESSES OF THE LORD”
Psalms 107:33
The measure changes here. From Psalms 107:33 the psalmist drops the
refrain and describes, not deliverance from peril or pain, but the
sudden alterna...
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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...
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He poureth (t) contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in
the wilderness, [where there is] no way.
(t) For their wickedness and tyranny he causes the people and subjects
to contemn them....
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From the wonders of redeeming grace upon the mighty waters, the
Psalmist makes a transition to the dry and barren land of the
wilderness, whence he takes occasion to set forth another striking
represe...
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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...
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HE POURETH CONTEMPT UPON PRINCES,.... That is, the Lord does, who is
above them; he laughs at them, and has them in derision, when they are
raging against his people, cause, and interest; he sets them...
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_He poureth contempt upon princes_ Even princes and kings cannot
secure to themselves and their posterity the continuance of their
dignity, glory, and authority. Though they might be honourable, adore...
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He poureth contempt upon princes and causeth them to wander in the
wilderness, where there is no way, in pitiful exile....
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The final paragraph refers to such as are suffering under misrule and
tyranny....
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WILDERNESS:
Or, void place...
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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...
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HE POURETH CONTEMPT UPON PRINCES; those who were honourable and adored
like gods by their people, and terrible to all their enemies, he
renders them despicable to their own subjects, and to other nati...
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Psalms 107:40 pours H8210 (H8802) contempt H937 princes H5081 wander
H8582 (H8686) wilderness H8414 way H1870...
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Psalms 107:33. _He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the
watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the
wickedness of them that dwell therein._
Hearken unto this, ye who a...
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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...
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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...
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_He turneth rivers into a wilderness._
GOD’S MANAGEMENT OF MAN UPON THE EARTH
I. It involves great revolutions.
1. In the secular department (Psalms 107:33). Sodom’s fertile soil
was smitten with b...
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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...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 107:33 God displayed his righteousness by
restoring Judah after the exile.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 21:19; 1 Samuel 5:9; 1 Samuel 6:4; 2 Kings 9:35; Acts 12:23;...
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Contempt — Renders them despicable. Wander — Banishes them from
their own courts and kingdoms, and forces them to flee into desolate
wildernesses for shelter....