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Psalms 107:39 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. "
Psalms 107:39
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37 sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
41 Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
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Psalms 107:1
"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever."
Psalms 107:2
"Let the redeemed by the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,"
Psalms 107:3
"and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south."
Psalms 107:4
"They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in."
Psalms 107:5
"Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them."
Psalms 107:6
"Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses."
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