Text -- Psalms 107:1-9 (NET)

Book 5
(Psalms 107-150)

Psalm 107

107:1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, and his loyal love endures! 107:2 Let those delivered by the Lord speak out, those whom he delivered from the power of the enemy, 107:3 and gathered from foreign lands, from east and west, from north and south. 107:4 They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live. 107:5 They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion. 107:6 They cried out to the Lord in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles. 107:7 He led them on a level road, that they might find a city in which to live. 107:8 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people! 107:9 For he has satisfied those who thirst, and those who hunger he has filled with food.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 107:1

¹ sn Psalm 107. The psalmist praises God for his kindness to his exiled people.

² tn Heb “for forever [is] his loyal love.”

NET Notes: Psa 107:2

¹ tn Or “let the redeemed of the Lord say [so].”

² tn Or “redeemed.”

³ tn Heb “hand.”

NET Notes: Psa 107:3

¹ tn Heb “from lands.” The word “foreign” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

NET Notes: Psa 107:5

¹ tn Heb “and their soul in them fainted.”

NET Notes: Psa 107:7

¹ sn A level road. See Jer 31:9.

NET Notes: Psa 107:8

¹ tn Heb “and [for] his amazing deeds for the sons of man.”

NET Notes: Psa 107:9

¹ tn Heb “[the] longing throat.” The noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh), which frequently refers to one’s very being or soul, here probably refers to one’s parched “throat” (note the parallelism with נֶפֱשׁ רְעֵבָה, nefesh rÿ’evah, “hungry throat”).

² tn Heb “and [the] hungry throat he has filled [with] good.”