Psalms 107:12
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
Psalms 107:12 in other translations
| BSB | He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help. |
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| WEB | Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help. |
| ASV | Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none to help. |
| YLT | And He humbleth with labour their heart, They have been feeble, and there is no helper. |
| DARBY | And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled, and there was none to help: |
| BBE | So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper. |
| Webster | Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help. |
What does Psalms 107:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 107:10-16
10-16. Their sufferings were for their rebellion against (Psa 105:28) the words, or purposes, or promises, of God for their benefit. When humbled they cry to God, who delivers them from bondage, described as a dark dungeon with doors and bars of metal, in which they are bound in iron--that is, chains and fetters. shadow of death--darkness with danger (Psa 23:4).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 107:10-16
This description of prisoners and captives intimates that they are desolate and sorrowful. In the eastern prisons the captives were and are treated with much severity. Afflicting providences must be improved as humbling providences; and we lose the benefit, if our hearts are unhumbled and unbroken under them. This is a shadow of the sinner's deliverance from a far worse confinement. The awakened sinner discovers his…
Psalms 107:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 107:12
- Psalms 22:11
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
- Exodus 5:18-19
Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
- Exodus 2:23
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
- Luke 15:14-17
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
- Isaiah 51:23
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
- Isaiah 52:5
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
- Job 9:13
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
- Isaiah 51:19-20
These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
- Judges 10:16-18
And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh. And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
- 2 Kings 6:26-27
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
- Lamentations 5:5-6
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- Nehemiah 9:37
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
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Context
- Psalms 107:11
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
- Psalms 107:12
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
- Psalms 107:13
Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Por lo que quebrantó él con trabajo sus corazones, cayeron y no hubo quien les ayudase; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il a humilié leur cœur par le travail; ils ont trébuché, sans qu’il y ait personne qui les secoure. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | So beugte er ihr Herz durch Mühsal; sie strauchelten, und kein Helfer war da. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | nonne tu, Deus, qui repulisti nos? et non exibis, Deus, in virtutibus nostris? |