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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 they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
 9Then he showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. (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 stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness 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 dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. (Isa. 9:2)
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Matt. 4:16• 16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. (Matt. 4:16)
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Matt. 22:13• 13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 22:13)
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Luke 1:79• 79To give light to them that sit 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• 18Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: (Psa. 105:18)
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Ex. 2:23‑24• 23And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason 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• 11Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. (2 Chron. 33:11)
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Job 36:8‑9• 8And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
 9Then he showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. (Job 36:8‑9)
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Lam. 3:6‑7• 6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
 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 the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
 21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. (Rom. 6:20‑21)
• 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)
• 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)

J. N. Darby Translation

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