Psalms 107
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Lutheran reading notes
In Psalms chapter 107, the wisdom literature continues to explore prayer, worship, lament, praise, and trust in God. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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O give thanks unto the LORD, for {he is} good: for his mercy {endureth} for ever.
Psalms 107:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let the redeemed of the LORD say {so}, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
Psalms 107:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. {south: Heb. sea}
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They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Psalms 107:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Psalms 107:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, {and} he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Psalms 107:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Oh that {men} would praise the LORD {for} his goodness, and {for} his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms 107:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Psalms 107:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, {being} bound in affliction and iron;
Psalms 107:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Psalms 107:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and {there was} none to help.
Psalms 107:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, {and} he saved them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psalms 107:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Oh that {men} would praise the LORD {for} his goodness, and {for} his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms 107:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Psalms 107:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Psalms 107:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Psalms 107:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, {and} he saveth them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered {them} from their destructions.
Psalms 107:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Oh that {men} would praise the LORD {for} his goodness, and {for} his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms 107:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing. {rejoicing: Heb. singing}
Psalms 107:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
Psalms 107:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
Psalms 107:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. {raiseth: Heb. maketh to stand}
Psalms 107:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psalms 107:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. {are...: Heb. all their wisdom is swallowed up}
Psalms 107:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Psalms 107:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Psalms 107:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Oh that {men} would praise the LORD {for} his goodness, and {for} his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms 107:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Psalms 107:32 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
Psalms 107:33 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. {barrenness: Heb. saltiness}
Psalms 107:34 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
Psalms 107:35 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
Psalms 107:36 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
Psalms 107:37 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Psalms 107:38 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
Psalms 107:39 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, {where there is} no way. {wilderness: or, void place}
Psalms 107:40 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh {him} families like a flock. {from: or, after}
Psalms 107:41 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The righteous shall see {it}, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
Psalms 107:42 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Whoso {is} wise, and will observe these {things}, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Psalms 107:43 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.