Psalms 107:10
The dwellers in darkness and death-shade, bound with oppression and iron;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
In Context
9For he hath satisfied the longing soul, and, the famished soul, hath he filled with good.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:11So Yahweh brought in upon them, the captains of the army that belonged to the king of Assyria, and they captured Manasseh with hooks,—and bound him captive with a pair of bronze fetters, and took him away to Babylon.
Job 36:8But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,
Isaiah 9:2the people who were walking in darkness, Have seen a great light,—The dwellers in a land death-shadowed, A light, hath shined upon them.
Lamentations 3:6In dark places, hath he made me sit, like the dead of age-past times.
Matthew 4:16The people that was sitting in darkness, a great light, beheld,—and, on them who were sitting in land and shade of death, Light rose on them.
Luke 1:79To shine on them who, in the darkness and shade of death, are sitting, to guide our feet into a way of peace.
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 →