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<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>They have seen the works of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br>         And His wonders in the deep. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>For He spoke and raised up a stormy wind,<br>         Which lifted up the waves of the sea. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>They rose up to the heavens, they went down to the depths;<br>         Their soul melted away in <i>their</i> misery. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>They reeled and staggered like a drunken man,<br>         And were at their wits end. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Then they cried to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> in their trouble,<br>         And He brought them out of their distresses. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>He caused the storm to be still,<br>         So that the waves of the sea were hushed. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Then they were glad because they were quiet,<br>         So He guided them to their desired haven. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Let them give thanks to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> for His lovingkindness,<br>         And for His wonders to the sons of men! <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Let them extol Him also in the congregation of the people,<br>         And praise Him at the seat of the elders. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>He changes rivers into a wilderness<br>         And springs of water into a thirsty ground; <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>A fruitful land into a salt waste,<br>         Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>He changes a wilderness into a pool of water<br>         And a dry land into springs of water; <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>And there He makes the hungry to dwell,<br>         So that they may establish an inhabited city, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>And sow fields and plant vineyards,<br>         And gather a fruitful harvest. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>Also He blesses them and they multiply greatly,<br>         And He does not let their cattle decrease. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>When they are diminished and bowed down<br>         Through oppression, misery and sorrow, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>He pours contempt upon princes<br>         And makes them wander in a pathless waste. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>But He sets the needy securely on high away from affliction,<br>         And makes <i>his</i> families like a flock. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>The upright see it and are glad;<br>         But all unrighteousness shuts its mouth. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/107-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>Who is wise? Let him give heed to these things,<br>         And consider the lovingkindnesses of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/107.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/107.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great waters: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/psalms/107.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/107.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/107.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business on great waters;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/107.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/107.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Those going down to the sea in ships, Doing business in many waters,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/march_12_they_wandered_in.htm">March 12. "They Wandered in the Wilderness in a Solitary Way" (Ps. Cvii. 4). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way" (Ps. cvii. 4). All who fight the Lord's battles must be content to die to all the favorable opinions of men and all the flattery of human praise. You cannot make an exception in favor of the good opinions of the children of God. It is very easy for the insidious adversary to make this also all appeal to the flesh. It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men, but we must never make it a motive in our life, but be content with <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/march_12_they_wandered_in.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/discipline_and_other_sermons/sermon_iii_prayer_and_science.htm">Prayer and Science</a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Preached at St. Olave's Church, Hart Street, before the Honourable Corporation of the Trinity House, 1866.) PSALM cvii. 23, 24, 28. They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. These are days in which there is much dispute about religion and science--how far they agree with each other; whether they contradict or interfere <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/discipline_and_other_sermons/sermon_iii_prayer_and_science.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">Discipline and Other Sermons</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/montgomery/sacred_poems_and_hymns/hymn_xlv_gods_great_deliverance.htm">God's Great Deliverance of his People. --Ps. Cvii. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">God's great Deliverance of His People.--Ps. cvii. part I.--The Wilderness. part II.--From Captivity. part III. From Malignant Disease. part IV. Perils on the Deep. Thank and praise Jehovah's name For his mercies firm and sure, From eternity the same, To eternity endure. Let the ransom'd thus rejoice, Gather'd out of every land; As the people of his choice, Pluck'd from the destroyer's hand. In the wilderness astray, Hither, thither, while they roam, Hungry, fainting by the way, Far from refuge, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/montgomery/sacred_poems_and_hymns/hymn_xlv_gods_great_deliverance.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">James Montgomery—</span><span class="citation2">Sacred Poems and Hymns</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/whitefield/selected_sermons_of_george_whitefield/thankfulness_for_mercies_received_a.htm">Thankfulness for Mercies Received, a Necessary Duty</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving. When God placed the first man in paradise, his soul no doubt was so filled with a sense of the riches of the divine love, that he was continually employing that breath of life, which the Almighty had not long before breathed into him, in blessing and magnifying that all-bountiful, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/whitefield/selected_sermons_of_george_whitefield/thankfulness_for_mercies_received_a.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">George Whitefield—</span><span class="citation2">Selected Sermons of George Whitefield</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bernard/some_letters_of_saint_bernard_abbot_of_clairvaux/chapter_v_he_accuses_abaelard.htm">He Accuses Abaelard for Preferring his Own Opinions and Even Fancies to the Unanimous Consent of the Fathers, Especially Where He Declares that Christ did Not</a><br></span><span class="snippet">He accuses Abaelard for preferring his own opinions and even fancies to the unanimous consent of the Fathers, especially where he declares that Christ did not become incarnate in order to save man from the power of the devil. 11. I find in a book of his sentences, and also in an exposition of his of the Epistle to the Romans, that this rash inquirer into the Divine Majesty attacks the mystery of our Redemption. He admits in the very beginning of his disputation that there has never been but one conclusion <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bernard/some_letters_of_saint_bernard_abbot_of_clairvaux/chapter_v_he_accuses_abaelard.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Bernard of Clairvaux—</span><span class="citation2">Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_beatitudes_an_exposition_of_matthew_51-12/14_spiritual_hunger_shall_be.htm">Spiritual Hunger Shall be Satisfied</a><br></span><span class="snippet">They shall be filled. Matthew 5:6 I proceed now to the second part of the text. A promise annexed. They shall be filled'. A Christian fighting with sin is not like one that beats the air' (1 Corinthians 9:26), and his hungering after righteousness is not like one that sucks in only air, Blessed are they that hunger, for they shall be filled.' Those that hunger after righteousness shall be filled. God never bids us seek him in vain' (Isaiah 45:19). Here is an honeycomb dropping into the mouths of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_beatitudes_an_exposition_of_matthew_51-12/14_spiritual_hunger_shall_be.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_xxvi_how_those_are.htm">How those are to be Admonished with whom Everything Succeeds According to their Wish, and those with whom Nothing Does. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Admonition 27.) Differently to be admonished are those who prosper in what they desire in temporal matters, and those who covet indeed the things that are of this world, but yet are wearied with the labour of adversity. For those who prosper in what they desire in temporal matters are to be admonished, when all things answer to their wishes, lest, through fixing their heart on what is given, they neglect to seek the giver; lest they love their pilgrimage instead of their country; lest they turn <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_xxvi_how_those_are.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Leo the Great—</span><span class="citation2">Writings of Leo the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xxxi_but_if_the.htm">"But if the Spirit of Him that Raised up Jesus from the Dead Dwell in You, He that Raised up Christ from the Dead, Shall Also</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Rom. viii. 11.--"But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." As there is a twofold death,--the death of the soul, and the death of the body--so there is a double resurrection, the resurrection of the soul from the power of sin, and the resurrection of the body from the grave. As the first death is that which is spiritual, then that which is bodily, so <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xxxi_but_if_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/14_the_providence_of_god.htm">The Providence of God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Q-11: WHAT ARE GOD'S WORKS OF PROVIDENCE? A: God's works of providence are the acts of his most holy, wise, and powerful government of his creatures, and of their actions. Of the work of God's providence Christ says, My Father worketh hitherto and I work.' John 5:17. God has rested from the works of creation, he does not create any new species of things. He rested from all his works;' Gen 2:2; and therefore it must needs be meant of his works of providence: My Father worketh and I work.' His kingdom <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/14_the_providence_of_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">A Body of Divinity</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/exposition_of_chap_iii_ii.htm">Exposition of Chap. Iii. (ii. 28-32. )</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Ver. 1. "And it shall come to pass, afterwards, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions." The communication of the Spirit of God was the constant prerogative of the Covenant-people. Indeed, the very idea of such a people necessarily requires it. For the Spirit of God is the only inward bond betwixt Him and that which is created; a Covenant-people, therefore, without such an inward <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/exposition_of_chap_iii_ii.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/first_principles_of_the_reformation/concerning_the_lords_supper.htm">Concerning the Lord's Supper</a><br></span><span class="snippet">There are two passages which treat in the clearest manner of this subject, and at which we shall look,--the statements in the Gospels respecting the Lord's Supper, and the words of Paul. (1 Cor. xi.) Matthew, Mark, and Luke agree that Christ gave the whole sacrament to all His disciples; and that Paul taught both parts of it is so certain, that no one has yet been shameless enough to assert the contrary. Add to this, that according to the relation of Matthew, Christ did not say concerning the bread, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/first_principles_of_the_reformation/concerning_the_lords_supper.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">First Principles of the Reformation</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/107-23.htm">Psalm 107:23 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/psalms/107-23.htm">Psalm 107:23 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/psalms/107-23.htm">Psalm 107:23 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/psalms/107-23.htm">Psalm 107:23 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/psalms/107-23.htm">Psalm 107:23 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/107-23.htm">Psalm 107:23 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/psalms/107-23.htm">Psalm 107:23 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/107-22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 107:22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 107:22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/107-24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 107:24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 107:24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/psalms/107-23.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>