Psalm 107:5

5 They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away.

Psalm 107:5 in Other Translations

5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

5 hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.

5 Hungry and thirsty, they nearly died.

5 Half-starved and parched with thirst, staggering and stumbling, on the brink of exhaustion.

5 Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.

5 They were hungry and thirsty. They began to lose hope.

5 They were hungry and thirsty; their spirits failed within them.

5 They were hungry and thirsty. Their lives were slipping away.

Psalm 107:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 107:5

Hungry and thirsty
As travellers in deserts sometimes are; their provisions being spent they bring with them, and none to be had on the road; there being no inns to stop at, nor any sort of food to eat, nor springs of water to drink of. In such a condition are souls, when, like the prodigal, they come to themselves, and are thoroughly convinced of their state and condition by nature; they find themselves starving and famishing, and no provision to be had from themselves or the creature: they hunger after Christ, the bread of life, and thirst after his grace, the water of life, and the blessings of it; they hunger and thirst after his righteousness, and justification by it; after the pardon of their sins through his blood, and after salvation by him, and an interest in it; after more knowledge of him, and communion with him.

Their soul fainted in them;
for want of food and drink; as men do, in a spiritual sense, for want of Christ, the blessings of his grace, particularly salvation; for want of views of interest in it, of the joys and comforts of it; see ( Psalms 119:81 ) . Some refer all this to the apostles and apostolic men, wandering in the Gentile world, hungry, thirsty, and without any certain dwelling place; see ( 1 Corinthians 4:11 ) .

Psalm 107:5 In-Context

3 those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.

4 Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle.

5 They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away.

6 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

7 He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 16:3
• 2. S Exodus 15:22; S Exodus 17:2