Psalms 106:42
Their enemies ◄oppressed them/treated them cruelly► and completely controlled them [MET].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
In Context
Cross References
Judges 2:14So he allowed people from other groups to raid them and steal their crops and animals. They were no longer able to resist their enemies, and Yahweh allowed all their enemies around them to defeat them.
Judges 10:12and the Sidon and Amalek and Maon people-groups were cruel to you, you cried out to me, and then I rescued you.
Nehemiah 9:28“But after there was a time of peace again, our ancestors again did things that displeased you. So again you allowed their enemies to conquer them. But whenever they cried out to you again to help them, you heard them from heaven, and because you act mercifully, you rescued them many times.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 106:35-48
Provocation of Israel in the Wilderness; The Divine Compassion. 34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them: 35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. 36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. 37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. 39 Thus were they… Read the whole commentary →