“ He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. ”
He sent his word, and healed them - He did it by a word; it was necessary for him merely to give a command, and the disease left them. So it was in the life of the Saviour, who often healed the s...
(h) He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered [them] from their (i) destructions. (h) By healing them he declares his good will toward them. (i) Meaning their diseases, which had almost brou...
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., Psalms 107:31 f. by a refrain: v...
He sent His Word . He sendeth. This is the key-note to the whole book. All blessing is bound up in this. Note the prophetic reference to Christ, the Living Word ( John 1:1 ; John 1:2 ; John 1:14...
20 He sendeth his word. Again, in saying that they are delivered from destruction, the prophet shows that he is here alluding to those diseases which, in the opinion of men, are incurable, a...
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. He sent his word, and healed them - He spoke: "Be thou clean, be thou whole;" and immediately the disease departed; an...
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. He sent his word, and healed them. "His word" is His swift and omnipotent instrument sent forth to do His biddin...
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...
(17-22) The sick.
Psalms 107:1-43 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:...
“His Wonders in the Deep” Psalms 107:17-32 Sickness yields the third type of suffering. Emphasis is laid on the cause of the suffering, which in the view of the writer is transgression and sin....
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...
Under another similitude, the Psalmist here sets forth the miseries of our fallen nature, in order to display the benignity and compassion of Heaven in our recovery. When sin entered into the world,...
He sent his word, and healed them ,.... It was his will and pleasure they should be healed, and accordingly they were; he issued his orders for the removal of the affliction, and it was done; diseas...
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered [them] from their destructions. Ver. 20. He sent his word, and healed them ] He commanded deliverance, and it was done; unless there he an allusion...
Fools That is, wicked men whom he calls fools , because through their own sin and folly they wrong themselves, and act against their own interest; not only their spiritual, but their secular inter...
The Divine Goodness towards the Afflicted. 17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, ar...
His word; his command, or his blessing, which came with power.
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 107:2-3 . But the Psal...
Psalms 107:1 . O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. In the heading of this Psalm we are reminded that the psalmist here exhorts the redeemed, in praising...
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 dive...
O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy en-dureth for ever. Men and mercy I. Men consciously needing the mercy of Heaven. Morally, we are all distressed travellers, captives,...
EXPOSITION A SONG of thanksgiving, first for deliverance from the Babylonish captivity ( Psalms 107:1-19 ), and then for other deliverances ( Psalms 107:4-19 ), passing into a general account...
The next section treats of those who foolishly bring misery upon themselves by willful indulgence in sin.
2 Kings 20:4 ; 2 Kings 20:5 ; Job 33:23-26 ; Job 33:28-30 ; Matthew 8:8 ; Numbers 21:8 ; Numbers 21:9 ; Psalms 103:3 ; Psalms 103:4 ; Psalms 147:3 ; Psalms 30:2 ; Psalms 30:3 ; Psalms 49...
Word — His command, or blessing.