Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.
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Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.
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Passages linked to Psalms 107:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 22:11 Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.
- Exodus 5:18-19 Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!” The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”
- Exodus 2:23 In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
- Luke 15:14-17 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need. He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any. But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
- Isaiah 51:23 I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”
- Judges 10:16-18 They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah. The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
- Judges 16:30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
- 2 Kings 6:26-27 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!” He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
- 2 Kings 6:33 While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”
- Nehemiah 9:37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
- Job 9:13 “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
- Isaiah 51:19-20 These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you? Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.
- Isaiah 52:5 “Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.
- Isaiah 63:5 I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me.
- Lamentations 5:5-6 Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest. We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- Judges 16:21 The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
- Psalms 18:40-41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
- Psalms 142:4 Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with…
Psa 107:12 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 verba Dei contempsit, saith Kimchi, which had stouted it out with God, and thought to have carried it away with a strong hand; as Manasseh, that sturdy rebel, till God had hampered him, and laid him in cold irons.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Their heart; the pride, and rebellion, and obstinacy of…
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.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He brought them out of darkness,.... In which they…
He brought them out of darkness,.... In which they were by nature, into marvellous light; to see their interest in Christ, and his salvation; and to have the light of joy and comfort in him.
And the shadow of death; quickening them by his Spirit and grace; causing them to live by faith upon him; entitling them to eternal life, and securing them from eternal death.
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And brake their bands in sunder; their cords and fetters of affliction; or their bands of sin, and the power of it; and loosed them whom Satan had bound and kept so for many years, and brought them into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Heart - The pride and obstinacy of their hearts.…
Heart - The pride and obstinacy of their hearts. Fell - They fell into hopeless miseries.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 12. He brought down their heart with labour]…
Verse 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 wicked men: "So they fell down, and there was none to help ;" God had forsaken them because they had forsaken him.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Therefore he brought down their heart - Their pride;…
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-satisfied; but God showed them that all this was vain, and humbled them, as he often does the proud, in the dust.
With labour - With trouble; with affliction; with disappointment; with reverses; with sorrow. The Hebrew word - עמל ‛âmâl - would include all this. Compare Gen 41:51; Deu 26:7; Job 3:10; Job 16:2.
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They fell down - They, as it were, “stumbled” - for so the Hebrew word means. They were walking along with a haughty air, and a high look, and suddenly they stumbled and fell.
And there was none to help - No God to interpose; no nation to befriend them; no human arm to be stretched out for their deliverance. God gave them up, helpless, to the just consequences of their folly and wickedness.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12. Brought down their heart with labour—He bowed down…
12. Brought down their heart with labour—He bowed down their heart, as one bends low to a heavy, servile task. The bowing down the “heart,” shows that the seat of their greatest suffering and labour was inward. Sin is a hard service. See Isa_4:2; Rom_6:23.
They fell down— They fainted under their oppressive labour.
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None to help—None but God, whom they had rejected, and whose service of freedom and delight they had despised.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. So that he subdued their heart with travail.…
12. So that he subdued their heart with travail. Cp. Psa_106:42.
they fell down] Lit. they stumbled; figuratively as in Psa_105:37 (note); Isa_3:8 (A.V. is ruined).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) Brought down.—Literally, made them bend.
(12) Brought down.—Literally, made them bend.
Fell down.—Better, stumbled.
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The whole verse presents a picture of men staggering under the forced labour which was the usual fate of captives under the great Oriental monarchies.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; rather,…
Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; rather, with misery, or with sorrow. They fell down; i.e. collapsed sank to the earth. And there was none to help. They were like Job; no one gave them any help in their affliction.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 12. Therefore he brought down their heart with…
Ver. 12. Therefore he brought down their heart with labour. In eastern prisons men are frequently made to labour like beasts of the field. As they have no liberty, so they have no rest. This soon subdues the stoutest heart, and makes the proud boaster sing another tune. Trouble and hard toil are enough to tame a lion. God has methods of abating the loftiness of rebellious looks; the cell and the mill make even giants tremble.
They fell down, and there was none to help. Stumbling on in the dark beneath their weary task, they at last fell prone upon the ground, but no one came to pity them or to lift them up. Their fall might be fatal for aught that any man cared about them; their misery was unseen, or, if observed, no one could interfere between them and their tyrant masters. In such a wretched plight the rebellious Israelite became more lowly in mind, and thought more tenderly of his God and of his offences against him. When a soul finds all its efforts at self salvation prove abortive, and feels that it is now utterly without strength, then the Lord is at work hiding pride from man and preparing the afflicted one to receive his mercy. The spiritual case which is here figuratively described is desperate, and therefore affords the finer field for the divine interposition; some of us remember well how brightly mercy shone in our prison, and what music the fetters made when they fell off from our hands. Nothing but the Lord's love could have delivered us; without it we must have utterly perished.
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Ver. 12. He brought down their heart. O believer, God may see you have many and strong lusts to be subdued, and that you need many and sore afflictions to bring them down. Your pride and obstinacy of heart may be strong, your distempers deeply rooted, and therefore the physic must be proportioned to them. John Willison.
Ver. 12. He brought down their heart with labour. Those towering passions by which they vainly vaunted themselves above the law and the worship of God, he weakened and curbed, so that they began to submit themselves to God. The root enk taken from the Arabic, describes a process of weakening by compressing the wings or shrinking the fingers, and is properly applied to birds, which when their wings are compressed are obliged to fall to the ground, or to men, who by the shrivelling up of their fingers lose the power of working; whence it is transferred to oppressions or depressions of any kind. Venema.
Ver. 12. They fell down, and there was none to help. Affliction is then come to the height and its complete measure, when the sinner is made sensible of his own weakness, and doth see there is no help for him, save in God alone. David Dickson.
Ver. 12. They fell down. They threw themselves prostrate at his feet for mercy; their heart and strength failed them, as the word signifies, and is used in Ps 31:10; terrified with a sense of divine wrath, they could not stand before the Lord, nor brave it out against him. And there was none to help. They could not help themselves, nor was there any creature that could. There is salvation in no other than in Christ; when he saw there was none to help him in that work, his own arm brought salvation to him; and when sinners see there is help in no other, they apply to him. John Gill.
Ver. 12-13.
1. The convicted soul's abject conditionhumbled, exhausted, prostrate, deserted.
2. His speedy deliverance. Cried, cried while in trouble, unto the Lord, he saved, out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:13*
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 107:12 Exhausted by their hard labor (Lam 5:13), the…
107:12 Exhausted by their hard labor (Lam 5:13), the people fell. While this might be expected of the wicked (Pss 9:3; 27:2), it was unlike the Israelites’ flight from Egypt (105:37).
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