Psalms 107 · Verse 14

Psalms 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psalms 107:14, King James Version

Psalms 107:14 in other translations

BSBHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
WEBHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.
ASVHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And brake their bonds in sunder.
YLTHe bringeth them out from the dark place, And death-shade, And their bands He draweth away.
DARBYHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.
BBEHe took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.
WebsterHe brought them out of darkness and the shades of death, and broke their bands asunder.

What does Psalms 107:14 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).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 He brought then out of darkness - 1. Gave them again peace and prosperity. 2. Repealed the sentence of death. 3. "Unbound the poor prisoners." 4. Broke their iron bonds in sunder.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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…

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Psalms 107:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יֽ֭וֹצִיאֵםYo.tzi.'emhe brought out themH3318
מֵחֹ֣שֶׁךְme.Cho.shekhfrom darknessH2822
וְצַלְמָ֑וֶתve.tzal.Ma.vetand deep darknessH6757
וּמוֹסְר֖וֹתֵיהֶ֣םu.mos.Ro.tei.Hemand fetters theirH4147
יְנַתֵּֽק\׃ye.na.Tekhe tore apartH5423

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 107:14

  • Isaiah 42:16

    And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

  • Psalms 116:16

    O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

  • Ephesians 5:8

    For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

  • 1 Peter 2:9

    But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

  • Zechariah 9:11-12

    As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

  • Psalms 107:10

    Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

  • Jeremiah 52:31-34

    And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil–merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison, And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life. And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

  • Isaiah 61:1

    The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

  • Acts 5:19

    But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,

  • Job 36:8

    And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

  • Acts 5:25

    Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.

  • Luke 13:16

    And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
brought.
10; 68:6; Job 3:5; 10:21,22; 15:22,30; 19:8; 33:30; 42:10-12
Isa 42:16; 49:9; 60:1-3; Eph 5:8; 1Pe 2:9
brake.
102:20; 105:19,20; 116:16; 146:7; Job 36:8; Isa 61:1; Jer 52:31-34
Zec 9:11,12; Ac 5:19,25; 12:7-10; 16:26-40

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 107:13

    Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

  • Psalms 107:14

    He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

  • Psalms 107:15

    Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

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Psalms 107:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Sacólos de las tinieblas y de la sombra de muerte, y rompió sus prisiones.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Il les fit sortir des ténèbres et de l’ombre de la mort, et rompit leurs liens.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Er führte sie heraus aus der Finsternis und dem Todesschatten, und zerriß ihre Fesseln.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
In Deo faciemus virtutem; et ipse ad nihilum deducet inimicos nostros.