Salmos 107:23-33

23 Os que descem ao mar em navios, os que fazem comércio nas grandes águas,

24 esses vêem as obras do Senhor, e as suas maravilhas no abismo.

25 Pois ele manda, e faz levantar o vento tempestuoso, que eleva as ondas do mar.

26 Eles sobem ao céu, descem ao abismo; esvaece-lhes a alma de aflição.

27 Balançam e cambaleiam como ébrios, e perdem todo o tino.

28 Então clamam ao Senhor na sua tribulação, e ele os livra das suas angústias.

29 Faz cessar a tormenta, de modo que se acalmam as ondas.

30 Então eles se alegram com a bonança; e assim ele os leva ao porto desejado.

31 Dêem graças ao Senhor pela sua benignidade, e pelas suas maravilhas para com os filhos dos homens!

32 Exaltem-no na congregação do povo, e louvem-no na assembléia dos anciãos!

33 Ele converte rios em deserto, e nascentes em terra sedenta;

Salmos 107:23-33 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 107

This psalm, from its style, and from its connection with the preceding psalms, seems to have been written by David. The two foregoing psalms respect the children of Israel; this is generally thought to concern all mankind, and its view to assert a general providence which attends all, in whatsoever condition and circumstance; and to encourage men in their distresses to cry unto the Lord. According to Kimchi, Aben Ezra, and others, four sorts of persons are mentioned, travellers through a wilderness, prisoners, sick persons, and such who use the seas; to which some add a fifth, husbandmen; these are instanced in, not to the exclusion of others, but from them it may be concluded that whatsoever state or condition persons may be in, they are known and taken notice of by the Lord, and are relieved by him when they call upon him. Some restrain the whole to the Israelites, as the Targum, R. Obadiah, Arama, and others, where they make any application; and others apply the psalm to New Testament times; and indeed, though the literal sense should be attended unto and preserved, yet it seems to be applicable to spiritual persons and things. The title of it in the Syriac version is pretty remarkable,

``it is said concerning Joab and Abiah the sons of Samuel, who recited the commandments of the Lord. God gathered the Jews out of captivity, and brought them out from Babylon. Also the only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, gathered the Gentiles from the four corners of the world, by preaching to baptism.''