Psalms 107:12
He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
BSB
ASV
Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none to help.
KJV
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour. In eastern prisons men are frequently made to labour like beasts of the field. As they have no liberty, so they have no rest. This soon subdues the stoutest heart, and makes the proud boaster sing another tune. Trouble and hard toil are enough to tame a lion. God has methods of abating the loftiness of rebellious looks; the cell and the mill make even giants tremble. They fell down, and there was none to help.
Their sufferings were for their rebellion against (Ps 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 (Ps 23:4).
The walk8
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Exodus 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
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Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
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Psalms 22:11Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
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Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.
For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father…
