Psalms 107:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יֹ֭שְׁבֵי חֹ֣שֶׁךְ וְצַלְמָ֑וֶת אֲסִירֵ֖י עֳנִ֣י וּבַרְזֶֽל

Transliteration

yōšᵊbê ḥōšek and-ṣalmāwet ʾăsîrê ʿŏnî and-barzel

Grammar Details

*yōšᵊbê*: qal participle, masculine plural construct - dwellers of/those who sit in
*ḥōšek*: noun, masculine singular - darkness
*ṣalmāwet*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed conjunction waw - and shadow of death/deep darkness
*ʾăsîrê*: qal passive participle, masculine plural construct - prisoners of/bound ones of
*ʿŏnî*: noun, masculine singular - affliction/misery
*barzel*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed conjunction waw - and iron

Word Meanings

*yōšᵊbê*: dwellers of/those who sit in/inhabitants of
*ḥōšek*: darkness/obscurity
*ṣalmāwet*: shadow of death/deep darkness/gloom
*ʾăsîrê*: prisoners of/bound ones of
*ʿŏnî*: affliction/misery/poverty/suffering
*barzel*: iron/fetters/chains

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Referenced Verses

Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Matt 4:16 : 16 The 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 22:13 : 13 Then 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.
Rom 6:20-21 : 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Exod 2:23-24 : 23 And 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. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
2 Chr 33:11 : 11 Wherefore 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.
Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job 36:8-9 : 8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; 9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
Ps 105:18 : 18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
Isa 9:2 : 2 The 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 42:7 : 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Lam 3:6-7 : 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Mic 7:8 : 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

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Ps 107:13-19
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13Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
15Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
16For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
17Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
18Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
19Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
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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.
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8And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
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22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Ps 107:11
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11Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Ps 105:18
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18Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
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8To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
Ps 143:3
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3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Ps 107:39
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39Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
Isa 8:22
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22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Job 3:20
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20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Ps 102:20
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20To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Job 24:17
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17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
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1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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Ps 107:9
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9For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Ps 107:5-6
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71%
5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Isa 9:2
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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.
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10And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
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14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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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.
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15He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
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26They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
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