Psalms 107:27
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
Psalms 107:27 in other translations
| BSB | They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless. |
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| WEB | They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. |
| ASV | They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits’ end. |
| YLT | They reel to and fro, and move as a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up. |
| DARBY | They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end: |
| BBE | They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing. |
| Webster | They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. |
What does Psalms 107:27 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 107:23-32
23-32. Here are set forth the perils of seafaring, futility of man's, and efficiency of God's, help. go ... sea--alluding to the elevation of the land at the coast.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 107:23-32
Let those who go to sea, consider and adore the Lord. Mariners have their business upon the tempestuous ocean, and there witness deliverances of which others cannot form an idea. How seasonable it is at such a time to pray! This may remind us of the terrors and distress of conscience many experience, and of those deep scenes of trouble which many pass through, in their Christian course. Yet, in answer to their…
Psalms 107:27 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 107:27
- Job 12:25
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
- Isaiah 19:14
The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
- Isaiah 29:9
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
- Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
- Acts 27:15-20
And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive. And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat: Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven. And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; …
- Isaiah 24:20
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
- Job 37:20
Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
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Context
- Psalms 107:26
They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
- Psalms 107:27
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
- Psalms 107:28
Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:27 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Tiemblan, y titubean como borrachos, y toda su ciencia es perdida. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ils tournent et chancellent comme un homme ivre, et toute leur sagesse est venue à néant… |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sie taumeln und schwanken wie ein Trunkener, und zunichte wird alle ihre Weisheit. |