Psalms 107:41
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Psalms 107:41 in other translations
| BSB | But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks. |
|---|---|
| WEB | Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock. |
| ASV | Yet setteth he the needy on high from affliction, And maketh him families like a flock. |
| YLT | And setteth on high the needy from affliction, And placeth families as a flock. |
| DARBY | But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh him families like flocks. |
| BBE | But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock. |
| Webster | Yet he setteth the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock. |
What does Psalms 107:41 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 107:33-41
33-41. He turneth rivers into a wilderness, &c.--God's providence is illustriously displayed in His influence on two great elements of human prosperity, the earth's productiveness and the powers of government. He punishes the wicked by destroying the sources of fertility, or, in mercy, gives fruitfulness to deserts, which become the homes of a busy and successful agricultural population. By a permitted misrule and…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 107:33-43
What surprising changes are often made in the affairs of men! Let the present desolate state of Judea, and of other countries, explain this. If we look abroad in the world, we see many greatly increase, whose beginning was small. We see many who have thus suddenly risen, as suddenly brought to nothing. Worldly wealth is uncertain; often those who are filled with it, ere they are aware, lose it again. God has many…
Psalms 107:41 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.
Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).
Cross references for Psalms 107:41
- 1 Samuel 2:8
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.
- Job 21:11
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
- Esther 8:15-17
And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad. The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour. And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
- 1 Samuel 2:21
And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the Lord.
- Isaiah 49:20-22
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been? Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
- Psalms 78:52
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
- Job 8:7
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
- Ruth 4:14-17
And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him. And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
- Job 5:11
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
- Job 11:15-19
For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety. …
- James 5:11
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
- Job 42:10-12
And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Ranked by reader votes · OpenBible.info cross references (CC BY).
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
113:7,8; Ru 4:14-17; 1Sa 2:8; Es 8:15-17; Job 5:11; 8:7; 11:15-19
Job 42:10-12; Jer 52:31-34; Jas 5:11
from. or, after. maketh.
78:52; 128:6; Ge 23:5-7; 48:11; 1Sa 2:21; Job 21:11; 42:16; Pr 17:6
Isa 49:20-22
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain
Context
- Psalms 107:40
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
- Psalms 107:41
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
- Psalms 107:42
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
Psalms 107:41 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y levanta al pobre de la miseria, y hace multiplicar las familias como rebaños de ovejas. |
|---|---|
| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais il relève le pauvre de l’affliction, et donne des familles comme des troupeaux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er hebt den Armen empor aus dem Elend, und macht Herden gleich seine Geschlechter. |