the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Psalms 107:39
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But when they decrease and are bowed downThrough oppression, evil, and sorrow,
When they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, misery and sorrow,
But [when they do fall from God,] they are diminished & brought low: through oppression, calamitie, & griefe of minde.
And they are diminished and brought low, through oppression, adversity, and sorrow:
When they are diminished and brought low Through oppression, affliction and sorrow,
but they are diminished and bowed down from coercion, evil and grief.
But because of disaster and troubles, their families became small and weak.
Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
Againe, they are minished and brought lowe through oppression, affliction and sorrow.
Whe they are minished & brought lowe thorow oppressio, thorow eny plage or trouble.
When they are diminished and bowed down (humbled) Through oppression, misery, and sorrow,
Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,
Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.
Sometimes you may be crushed by troubles and sorrows, until only a few of you are left to survive.
When their numbers fall, and they grow weak, because of oppression, disaster and sorrow,
Againe men are diminished, and brought lowe by oppression, euill and sorowe.
Again, they are diminished and humbled through oppression, affliction, and misery.
Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
Again, they are minished and dwindle away through oppression of evil and sorrow.
When they decrease in number and become impoverished through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,
When the number of people becomes less and they are put to shame under a bad power and trouble and sorrow,
Again they become few, and are brought low, by the pressure of evils and pain.
Again, they are minished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
When they are decreased and humbled by oppression, evil, and sorrow,
When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,
So have they become few and been brought low, By oppression, misfortune, and sorrow;
(106-39) Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.
When they become few and they are bent down from the oppression of calamity and grief,
When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, evil, and sorrow,
When they become few and lowly Because of oppression, misery, and sorrow,
Because of disaster, troubles, and sadness, their families grew smaller and weaker.
When God's people were defeated and humiliated by cruel oppression and suffering,
When they are diminished and are humbled by cruel oppression and sorrow,
And thei weren maad fewe; and thei weren trauelid of tribulacioun of yuelis and of sorewis.
And they are diminished, and bow down, By restraint, evil, and sorrow.
When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Again: The incidents detailed in these verses, which frequently occur, and mark the superintendence of a benign Providence, and the hand of a just God, appear to be brought forward to illustrate the return of the Israelites from captivity, and the punishment of their oppressors the Babylonians. Wherefore, at last, as in a common chorus, they conclude with exhorting each other to a serious consideration of these things, and to make a proper return to the Almighty.
they are: Psalms 30:6, Psalms 30:7, Genesis 45:11, Ruth 1:20, Ruth 1:21, 1 Samuel 2:5-7, 2 Kings 4:8, 2 Kings 8:3, Job 1:10-17
oppression: Exodus 1:13, Exodus 1:14, Exodus 2:23, Exodus 2:24, Judges 6:3-6, 2 Kings 10:32, 2 Kings 13:7, 2 Kings 13:22, 2 Kings 14:26, 2 Chronicles 15:5, 2 Chronicles 15:6, Jeremiah 51:33, Jeremiah 51:34
Reciprocal: Isaiah 1:7 - country Isaiah 21:17 - the mighty Ezekiel 5:11 - will I Obadiah 1:2 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Again they are minished,.... Or "lessened", in their families, cattle, and substance; either the same persons as before, or others. The Targum paraphrases it,
"but when they sin, they are lessened:''
for sin is the cause of it, as follows:
and brought low through oppression, affliction and sorrow; either because of their oppression of the poor, the evil they do to them, and the sorrow they bring upon them; or they are brought into a low estate through the tyranny and oppression of others, and by the afflictions and sorrows they are brought into by them. This may be applied to the Jews, at their destruction by the Romans, when they were greatly lessened and brought low by their oppression of them: or rather to the Christians; not under the Heathen persecutions, for then they increased more and more; but under antichristian tyranny, when the beast had power over them, and overcame and slew them; and their numbers were so reduced, that the whole world is said to wonder after the beast, Revelation 13:3, and which will be the case again, when the witnesses will be slain: the number of Christians is greatly lessening now; there are but a few names in Sardis; Jacob is small, but will be smaller and fewer still.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Again, they are minished ... - literally, “And they are made to decrease.” That is - all is in the hand of God. He rules and directs all things. If there is prosperity, it comes from him; if there are reverses, they occur under his hand. People are not always prosperous. There are changes, misfortunes, disappointments, sorrows. God so deals with the race as in the bests manner to secure the recognition of himself: not always sending prosperity, lest people should regard it as a thing of course, and forget that it comes from him; and not making the course of life uniformly that of disappointment and sorrow, lest they should feel that there is no God presiding over human affairs. He visits now with prosperity, and now with adversity; now with success, and now with reverses, showing that his agency is constant, and that people are wholly dependent on him. In existing circumstances - since man is what he is - it is better that there should be alternations, reverses, and changes, than that there should be a uniform course.
Through oppression - Anything that “presses” or “straitens.”
Affliction - Evil; here, in the sense of calamity.
And sorrow - Anguish, pain: of body or mind.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 107:39. Again, they are minished — Sometimes by war, or pestilence, or famine. How minished and brought low was the country already spoken of, by the long and destructive war which began in 1775, and was not ended till 1783! And what desolations, minishings, and ruin have been brought on the fertile empires of Europe by the war which commenced in 1792, and did not end till 1814! And how many millions of lives have been sacrificed in it, and souls sent unprepared into the eternal world! When God makes inquisition for blood, on whose heads will he find the blood of these slaughtered millions? Alas! O, alas!
