Psalms 107:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

Psalms 107:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 18:17
For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
Acts 27:9-28
Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them, …
Isaiah 42:10
Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
Ezekiel 27:26
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
Psalms 48:7
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 23-32)

The psalmist here calls upon those to give glory to God who are delivered from dangers at sea. Though the Israelites dealt not much in merchandise, yet their neighbours the Tyrians and Zidonians did, and for them perhaps this part of the psalm was especially calculated. I. Much of the power of God appears at all times in the sea, Ps. 107:23, 24. It appears to those that go down to the sea in ships…

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

(vv. 23)

23-32. Here are set forth the perils of seafaring, futility of man’s, and efficiency of God’s, help. go ... sea--alluding to the elevation of the land at the coast.