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Thanksgiving for Deliverance

Psalms 107:12

In 11 translations

BSB
He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.
KJV
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
WEB
Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.
ASV
Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none to help.
LSV
And He humbles their heart with labor, || They have been feeble, and there is no helper.
YLT
And He humbleth with labour their heart, They have been feeble, and there is no helper.
DBY
And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled, and there was none to help:
DRC106:12
And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened, and their was none to help them.
GNV
When he humbled their heart with heauines, then they fell downe and there was no helper.
JPS
Therefore He humbled their heart with travail, they stumbled, and there was none to help —
LXXE106:12
So their heart was brought low with troubles; they were weak, and there was no helper.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַיַּכְנַ֣ע בֶּעָמָ֣ל לִבָּ֑ם כָּ֝שְׁל֗וּ וְאֵ֣ין עֹזֵֽר׃
LXX-Br106:12
Καὶ ἐταπεινώθη ἐν κόποις ἡ καρδία αὐτῶν, ἠσθένησαν καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ βοηθῶν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 22:11Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
  • Exodus 5:18–19Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.” The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”
  • Exodus 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
  • Luke 15:14–17After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. He…
  • Isaiah 51:23I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
  • Job 9:13God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
  • Lamentations 5:5–6We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest. We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
  • Isaiah 52:5And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.
  • Judges 10:16–18So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel. Then the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, and the Israelites assembled and…
  • 2 Kings 6:26–27As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!” He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the…
  • 2 Kings 6:33While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
  • Isaiah 63:5I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.
  • Judges 16:30Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.
  • Nehemiah 9:37Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.
  • Isaiah 51:19–20These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you? Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They…
  • Judges 16:21Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

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