Psalms 107:5

World English Bible

Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Hungry and thirsty, they nearly died.

English Revised Version
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Update Bible Version
Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.

New Century Version
They were hungry and thirsty, and they were discouraged.

New English Translation
They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Amplified Bible
Hungry and thirsty, They fainted.

English Standard Version
hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei weren hungri and thirsti; her soule failide in hem.

Berean Standard Bible
They were hungry and thirsty; their soul fainted within them.

Contemporary English Version
You were hungry and thirsty and about to give up.

American Standard Version
Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.

Bible in Basic English
Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

Complete Jewish Bible
They were hungry and thirsty, their life was ebbing away.

Darby Translation
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them:

Easy-to-Read Version
They were hungry and thirsty and growing weak.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

King James Version (1611)
Hungry and thirstie: their soule fainted in them.

New Life Bible
They were hungry and thirsty. Their souls became weak within them.

New Revised Standard
hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Both hungrie and thirstie, their soule fainted in them.

George Lamsa Translation
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Good News Translation
They were hungry and thirsty and had given up all hope.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hungry - yea thirsty, their soul, within them, fainted:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(106-5) They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.

Revised Standard Version
hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
they were hungry and thirstie, their soule fainted in them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Christian Standard Bible®
They were hungry and thirsty;their spirits failed within them.

Hebrew Names Version
Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.

King James Version
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Lexham English Bible
Hungry and thirsty, their soul grew faint within them.

Literal Translation
hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them;

Young's Literal Translation
Hungry -- yea -- thirsty, Their soul in them becometh feeble,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hongrie & thirstie, & their soule faynted in the.

New American Standard Bible
They were hungry and thirsty; Their souls felt weak within them.

New King James Version
Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They were hungry and thirsty; Their soul fainted within them.

Legacy Standard Bible
Hungry and thirsty,Their soul fainted within them.

Contextual Overview

¹ Give thanks to Yahweh, For he is good, For his lovingkindness endures forever. ² Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, Whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, ³ Gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south. ⁴ They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in. ⁵ Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them. ⁶ Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, And he delivered them out of their distresses, ⁷ He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city to live in. ⁸ Let them praise Yahweh for his lovingkindness, For his wonderful works to the children of men! ⁹ For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 15:18, Judges 15:19, 1 Samuel 30:11, 1 Samuel 30:12, Isaiah 44:12, Jeremiah 14:18, Lamentations 2:19, Mark 8:2, Mark 8:3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:10 - found Isaiah 41:17 - I the Lord Acts 27:21 - after

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hungry and thirsty,.... As travellers in deserts sometimes are; their provisions being spent they bring with them, and none to be had on the road; there being no inns to stop at, nor any sort of food to eat, nor springs of water to drink of. In such a condition are souls, when, like the prodigal, they come to themselves, and are thoroughly convinced of their state and condition by nature; they find themselves starving and famishing, and no provision to be had from themselves or the creature: they hunger after Christ, the bread of life, and thirst after his grace, the water of life, and the blessings of it; they hunger and thirst after his righteousness, and justification by it; after the pardon of their sins through his blood, and after salvation by him, and an interest in it; after more knowledge of him, and communion with him.

Their soul fainted in them; for want of food and drink; as men do, in a spiritual sense, for want of Christ, the blessings of his grace, particularly salvation; for want of views of interest in it, of the joys and comforts of it; see Psalms 119:81. Some refer all this to the apostles and apostolic men, wandering in the Gentile world, hungry, thirsty, and without any certain dwelling place; see 1 Corinthians 4:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hungry and thirsty - As they would be, when wandering in such a desert. A more literal and expressive rendering would be, “Hungry - also thirsty.”

Their soul fainted in them - The word used here - עטף ‛âṭaph - means properly to cover, to clothe, as with a garment, Psalms 73:6; or a field with grain, Psalms 65:13; then, to hide oneself, Job 23:9; then, to cover with darkness, Psalms 77:3; Psalms 102:0, title; thus it denotes the state of mind when darkness seems to be in the way - a way of calamity, trouble, sorrow; of weakness, faintness, feebleness. Here it would seem from the connection to refer to the exhaustion produced by the want of food and drink.