Mazmur 107:6-7
Konteks107:6 They cried out to the Lord in their distress;
he delivered them from their troubles.
107:7 He led them on a level road, 1
that they might find a city in which to live.
Mazmur 107:13-14
Konteks107:13 They cried out to the Lord in their distress;
he delivered them from their troubles.
107:14 He brought them out of the utter darkness, 2
and tore off their shackles.
Mazmur 107:19-20
Konteks107:19 They cried out to the Lord in their distress;
he delivered them from their troubles.
107:20 He sent them an assuring word 3 and healed them;
he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped. 4
Mazmur 107:28-29
Konteks107:28 They cried out to the Lord in their distress;
he delivered them from their troubles.
and the waves 6 grew silent.
[107:7] 1 sn A level road. See Jer 31:9.
[107:14] 2 tn Heb “darkness and deep darkness.” See the note on the word “darkness” in v. 10.
[107:20] 3 tn Heb “he sent his word.” This probably refers to an oracle of assurance which announced his intention to intervene (see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 [WBC], 59).
[107:20] 4 tn Heb “he rescued from their traps.” The Hebrew word שְׁחִית (shekhit, “trap”) occurs only here and in Lam 4:20, where it refers to a trap or pit in which one is captured. Because of the rarity of the term and the absence of an object with the verb “rescued,” some prefer to emend the text of Ps 107:20, reading מִשַׁחַת חַיָּתָם (mishakhat khayyatam, “[he rescued] their lives from the pit”). Note also NIV “from the grave,” which interprets the “pit” as Sheol or the grave.
[107:29] 5 tn Heb “he raised [the] storm to calm.”
[107:29] 6 tn Heb “their waves.” The antecedent of the third masculine plural pronominal suffix is not readily apparent, unless it refers back to “waters” in v. 23.
