Psalms 107:28

28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivers them out of their afflictions.

Psalms 107:28 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 107:28

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble
As in a storm seafaring persons are used to do; so did Jonah's mariners, though Heathens, everyone cried to his god. With the Romans ^F15 tempests were reckoned deities, and had temples erected, and sacrifices offered to them; but these persons were such as knew and owned the true Jehovah, and called upon him in their distress: so did the apostles of Christ.

And he bringeth them out of their distresses;
by stilling the winds and the waves, causing them to proceed on their voyage with pleasure, and landing them safe on shore, as follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Cicero, de Nat. Deor. l. 3. c. 20. Virgil. Aeneid. l. 5. v. 772. Horat. Epod. Ode 10. v. 23, 24. Ovid. Fast. 6. v. 193.

Psalms 107:28 In-Context

26 They mount up to the heavens; they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble.

27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man, and all of their knowledge is of no avail.

28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivers them out of their afflictions.

29 He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

30 Then they are glad because they are at rest; so he brings them into the haven of his will.