Psalms 107:17

Overview - Psalms 107
The psalmist exhorts the redeemed, in praising God, to observe his manifold providence,
over travellers;
10 over captives;
17 over sick men;
23 over seamen;
33 and in divers varieties of life.
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Psalms 107:17  (King James Version)
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
 


Fools
This is the third comparison; the captives being compared to persons in a dangerous malady, as the consequences of their own sins.
14:1 92:6 Proverbs 1:22 ; Proverbs 7:7 Proverbs 7:22

because
38:1-8 Numbers 11:33 Numbers 11:34 ; 12:10-13 21:5-9 Isaiah 57:17 Isaiah 57:18 ; Jeremiah 2:19
Lamentations 3:39