Psalms 107:1

Overview - Psalms 107
1	The psalmist exhorts the redeemed, in praising God, to observe his manifold providence,
4	over travellers;
10	over captives;
17	over sick men;
23	over seamen;
33	and in divers varieties of life.

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Psalms 107:1 (King James Version)
O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

A: M. 3468. B.C. 536. (Title.); The author of this Psalm is unknown; but it was evidently written to commemorate the return of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity; and it may easily be perceived that it must have been sung in alternate parts, having a double burden, or two intercalary verses often recurring; Bp. Lowth considers it as written "after the method of the ancient pastorals, where, be the subject of their verse what it will, each swain endeavours to excel the other; and one may perceive their thoughts and expressions gradually to rise upon each other." "No doubt," he adds, "the composition of this Psalm is admirable throughout; and the descriptive part of it adds at least its share of beauty to the whole; but what is most to be admired is its conciseness, and withal the expressiveness of the diction, which strikes the imagination with illimitable elegance. The weary and bewildered traveller--the miserable captive in the dungeon--the sick and dying man--the seaman foundering in a storm--are described in so affecting a manner, that they far exceed any thing of the kind, though never so much laboured."
Give: 106:1 118:1 136:1-26 1 Chronicles 16:34 1 Chronicles 16:41 ; 2 Chronicles 5:13 ; 2 Chronicles 7:3 2 Chronicles 7:6 20:21
good: 119:68 Matthew 19:17
for his mercy: 103:17 Luke 1:50