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26They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

Psalms 107:26

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

  • My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

  • Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

  • She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

  • And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.

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 shi…

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