Psalms 107:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

Psalms 107:18 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Psalms 9:13
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Job 33:19-22
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: …
Isaiah 38:10
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Atheism Attributes of God Blessing Chastisement Correction Enquiring of God God

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-22)

Bodily sickness is another of the calamities of this life which gives us an opportunity of experiencing the goodness of God in recovering us, and of that the psalmist speaks in these verses, where we may observe, I. That we, by our sins, bring sickness upon ourselves and then it is our duty to pray, Ps. 107:17-18. 1. It is the sin of the soul that is the cause of sickness; we bring it upon ourselv…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

17-22. Whether the same or not, this exigency illustrates that dispensation of God according to which sin brings its own punishment. are afflicted--literally, “afflict themselves,” that is, bring on disease, denoted by loathing of food, and drawing