Psalms 107:5
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
In Context
4They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city of habitation.
6Then they cried to LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Cross References
Exodus 17:3And the people thirsted there for water. And the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why have thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?
1 Samuel 30:11And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread. And he ate, and they gave him water to drink.
Isaiah 44:12The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Yea, he is hungry, and his strength fails. He drinks no water, and is faint.
Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out thy heart like water before the face of LORD. Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young sons, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 107:2-10
Exhortation to Celebrate God's Praises. 1 O give thanks unto the Lord , for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; 3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. 5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. 6 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered… Read the whole commentary →