Psalms 107:27
They stumbled about and staggered like drunken men, and they did not know what to do.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.
In Context
28In their troubles, they also called out to Yahweh, and he rescued them from their distresses.
Cross References
Job 12:25They grope around in the darkness, without any light, and he causes them to stagger like [SIM] people who are drunk.”
Isaiah 19:3The people of Egypt will become very discouraged, and I will cause their plans not to be successful. They will plead with idols and sorcerers and those who talk with spirits of dead people to tell them what they should do.
Isaiah 24:20It will be as though the earth will stagger like [SIM] a drunk; it will shake like [SIM] a hut shakes in a windstorm. It will collapse and not be able to rise again, because the guilt of the people who rebel against Yahweh is very great.
Acts 27:15It blew strongly against the front of the ship. The result was that we could not keep going in the direction in which we had been going. So the sailors let the wind move the ship in the direction that the wind was blowing.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 107:24-33
The Divine Goodness to Mariners. 23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; 24 These see the works of the Lord , and his wonders in the deep. 25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. 28 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth… Read the whole commentary →