by saving their lives from death and sustaining them during times of famine.

(the ransom price for a human life is too high, and people go to their final destiny),

They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.

From harm and violence he will defend them; he will value their lives.

They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death.

They reached up to the sky, then dropped into the depths. The sailors’ strength left them because the danger was so great.

He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.