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Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 107:30

Psalms 107:30Then are they glad because they are quiet. The quiet of the SabbathI. Why on this day of rest ought we to be glad?1. Because the week is the scene of perpetual activity.2. Because the week is the season for impairing rather than increasing our spiritual vigour.3. Because the week is the time in which we ale exposed to the most spiritual danger.II. What the quiet of the Sabbath signifies and symbolizes.1. It does not mean mental inaction. It does not signify having nothing to think... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 107:1

Psa 107:1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. Ver. 1. O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good ] He is good, and doeth good, Psalms 119:68 , not to his Israel only, as is set forth in the two foregoing psalms, but to all mankind, which is Divini ingenii cura, as one saith, whatever atheists and epicures say to the contrary, denying a Divine providence: witness that profane distich of theirs: Nempe nihil positum est, et sors incerta vagatur,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 107:2

Psa 107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say [so], whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; Ver. 2. Let the redeemed of the Lord ] Four sorts of whom are afterwards instanced: 1. exiles; 2. prisoners; 3. sick persons; 4. seamen. These and the like must praise him in a special manner for their deliverance. From the hand of the enemy ] Or, of distress. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 107:3

Psa 107:3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. Ver. 3. And gathered them out of the lands ] He beginneth with wayfaring men and exiles, because, according to Tyrtaeus, Non exul curae dicitur esse Deo. And from the south ] Heb. from the sea, that is, as the Chaldee expoundeth it, from the southern sea, called the Red Sea. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 107:4

Psa 107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. Ver. 4. They wandered in the wilderness, &c. ] This is a sad case, Mendicum patria amissa laribusque vagari. Pλαγχθοσυνης ουκ εστι κακωτερον αλλο βροτοισι . And yet this is the case of all God’s redeemed ones while they are here, Heb 11:38 1 Peter 2:12 . Per varios casus per tot discrlmina rerum Tendimus in patriam veram vitamque perennem. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 107:5

Psa 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Ver. 5. Hungry and thirsty, &c. ] The Lord’s exiles meet many times with the like exigents in the wilderness of this wicked world; but let them be content, and say, We are well for the present, and it will be better with us hereafter (Melancthon). Exul erat Christus; comites nos exulis huius Esse decet, cuius nos quoque membra sumus. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 107:6

Psa 107:6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he delivered them out of their distresses. Ver. 6. Then they cried unto the Lord ] Though under a wrong name, it may be, as of Jupiter, Mercury, &c.; and, in an uncertain way, as Hecuba did with her, O Iupiter quicquid es sive caelum hoc, sive mens, quae vehitur in coelo, &c.; and as those mariners in John 1:5 , who cried every man to his god, and, lest they might all mistake the true God, they awaken Jonah, to call... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 107:7

Psa 107:7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. Ver. 7. And he led them forth by the right way ] Better than that Dea Vibilia among the Romans, of whom they fancied that she set them right when out of the way at any time; or Minerva among the Athenians, who, they said, turned all their evil counsels to the best unto them. That they might go to a city of habitation ] Grow to a state of settlement, to Jerusalem, saith the Chaldee; to that city which... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 107:8

Psa 107:8 Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men! Ver. 8. Oh that men would praise the Lord, &c. ] Heb. that they would confess it to the Lord, both in secret and in society. This is all the rent that God requireth; he is content that we have the comfort of his blessings, so he may have the honour of them. This was all the fee Christ looked for for his cures, Go and tell what God hath done for thee. Words seem to be a... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 107:9

Psa 107:9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. Ver. 9. For he satisfieth the longing soul, &c. ] This as a recapitulation of the first part, Psalms 107:5-7 , and setteth forth the reason why the redeemed should praise God out of the sweet experience they have had of his wonderful providence and goodness toward them. And filleth the hungry soul with goodness ] This flower the blessed Virgin picketh out of David’s garden (among many others out of... read more

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