Salmos 107:32-42

32 Que lo exalten públicamente delante de la congregación
y ante los líderes del pueblo.

33 Él transforma ríos en desiertos
y manantiales de agua en tierra árida y sedienta.

34 Convierte la tierra fructífera en tierras saladas y baldías,
a causa de la maldad de sus habitantes.

35 Pero también convierte desiertos en lagunas
y la tierra seca en fuentes de agua.

36 Lleva a los hambrientos para que se establezcan allí
y construyan sus ciudades.

37 Siembran los campos, plantan viñedos,
y recogen cosechas abundantes.

38 ¡Cuánto los bendice!
Allí crían familias numerosas
y sus manadas de animales aumentan.

39 Cuando disminuye la cantidad de ellos y se empobrecen
por la opresión, las dificultades y el dolor,

40 el Señor
derrama desprecio sobre sus príncipes
y los hace vagar por tierras baldías y sin sendero.

41 Pero rescata de la dificultad a los pobres
y hace crecer a sus familias como rebaños de ovejas.

42 Los justos verán estas cosas y se alegrarán
mientras los perversos son bruscamente silenciados.

Salmos 107:32-42 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.''