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Psalm 107

Psa. 107:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Such as sit
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
in darkness
choshek (Hebrew #2822)
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
KJV usage: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Pronounce: kho-shek'
Origin: from 2821
and in the shadow of death
tsalmaveth (Hebrew #6757)
shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity)
KJV usage: shadow of death.
Pronounce: tsal-maw'-veth
Origin: from 6738 and 4194
, being bound
'aciyr (Hebrew #615)
bound, i.e. a captive
KJV usage: (those which are) bound, prisoner.
Pronounce: aw-sere'
Origin: from 631
f in affliction
`oniy (Hebrew #6040)
from 6031; depression, i.e. misery: --afflicted(-ion), trouble.
Pronounce: on-ee'
and iron
barzel (Hebrew #1270)
iron (as cutting); by extension, an iron implement
KJV usage: (ax) head, iron.
Pronounce: bar-zel'
Origin: perhaps from the root of 1269
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Job 36:8‑9• 8And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
 9Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased. (Job 36:8‑9)

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Darkness,
Death,
Iron

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Such.Here begins the second comparison; in which the state of the captives in Babylon is illustrated by that of prisoners in a dreary dungeon.as sit.
Job 3:5• 5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it. (Job 3:5)
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Isa. 9:2• 2the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them light hath shone. (Isa. 9:2)
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Matt. 4:16• 16--the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in the country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up. (Matt. 4:16)
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Matt. 22:13• 13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him feet and hands, and take him away, and cast him out into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 22:13)
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Luke 1:79• 79to shine upon them who were sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. (Luke 1:79)
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Psa. 105:18• 18They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into irons; (Psa. 105:18)
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Ex. 2:23‑24• 23And it came to pass during those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and cried; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage;
 24and God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob; (Ex. 2:23‑24)
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2 Chron. 33:11• 11And Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with fetters, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon. (2 Chron. 33:11)
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Job 36:8‑9• 8And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
 9Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased. (Job 36:8‑9)
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Lam. 3:6‑7• 6He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.
 7He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. (Lam. 3:6‑7)
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Rom. 6:20‑21• 20For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.
 21What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* is death. (Rom. 6:20‑21)
• Secondly, they are viewed as prisoners bound in a prison-house in chains of affliction, but having cried to the Lord, He set them free (vs. 10-16). (“Book 5.” by B. Anstey)
• The gates of brass and iron which shut them in are broken, where iniquity and the folly of departure from the Lord had brought it all on. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 107-113” by J.N. Darby)
• (vv. 10-16) Secondly, men are viewed in their lawlessness, rebelling against the words of God, and despising His counsel. In the former case the soul was unsatisfied; here, through rebellion against God, the spirit comes into darkness, under the sentence of death, and in bondage to the enemy. (“Psalms 107” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,