Psalm 107:1-31

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 107:4

They wandered in the wilderness; mistaking their way, which they might easily do in the vast and sandy deserts of Arabia. No city to dwell in; or rather, no city or town inhabited, where they might refresh themselves, as travellers used to do; for they did not go into the wilderness to seek for a city or habitation there, but only intended to pass through it, as appears by the context, and by the nature of the thing. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 107:5

Partly for want of necessary provisions, and partly through anguish of spirit. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 107:6

Unto the Lord, Heb. unto Jehovah, to the true God. For the heathens, of whom he speaks, had many of them some knowledge of the true God, and did in their manner worship him with and in their idols; and especially in their distresses, when they discovered the impotency of their idols, they did direct their prayer immediately to the true God, of which there are many instances of heathen writers. He delivered them out of their distresses, in answer to their prayers, which he did not because their... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 107:7

Led them forth out of the wilderness, where they had lost their way, Psalms 107:4. A city of habitation: See Poole "Psalms 107:4". read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 107:8

Oh that men would praise! Heb. Let them praise. Or, They shall praise, i.e. they are highly obliged to praise. To the children of men; not only to his peculiar people, but to all mankind, to whom he is very kind and bountiful. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 107:9

The longing; either the thirsty, opposed to the hungry here following; or the hungry, as this general phrase is limited and expounded in the next clause. With goodness; with the fruits of his goodness; with good things, Psalms 103:5; with food and gladness, Acts 14:17; with that good which they wanted and desired. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 107:10

In darkness and in the shadow of death; in a disconsolate and forlorn condition, in dark prisons or dungeons. In affliction and iron; with afflicting or grievous irons. Or, in the cords of affliction, as they are called, Job 36:8, and particularly in iron fetters. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 107:11

Against the words of God; against God’s commands, made known either, 1. By his written word delivered to the Jews, of which the Gentiles were not ignorant, which therefore they should have diligently inquired after and searched into, as the queen of Sheba came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and as divers of the heathens travelled into very remote parts to gain a more perfect knowledge of the arts and sciences; which will justly be laid to their charge, and condemn... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 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. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 107:16

He restored them to liberty in spite of all impediments and oppositions. read more

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