Psalms 107:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּכְנַ֣ע בֶּעָמָ֣ל לִבָּ֑ם כָּ֝שְׁל֗וּ וְאֵ֣ין עֹזֵֽר

Transliteration

and-yaknaʿ with-ʿāmāl libbām kāšᵊlû and-ʾên ʿōzēr

Grammar Details

*yaknaʿ*: hiphil imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he humbled/subdued
*ʿāmāl*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition bet - with labor/trouble
*libbām*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their heart
*kāšᵊlû*: qal perfect, 3rd person common plural - they stumbled/fell
*ʾên*: particle of negation with prefixed conjunction waw - and there was no
*ʿōzēr*: qal participle, masculine singular - helper

Word Meanings

*yaknaʿ*: he humbled/subdued/brought down
*ʿāmāl*: labor/trouble/toil/hardship
*libbām*: their heart/mind/inner self
*kāšᵊlû*: they stumbled/fell/were brought down
*ʿōzēr*: helper/one who helps

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Referenced Verses

Ps 22:11 : 11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Ps 142:4 : 4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
Isa 51:19-20 : 19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? 20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
Isa 51:23 : 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Isa 52:5 : 5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
Isa 63:5 : 5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
Lam 5:5-6 : 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Luke 15:14-17 : 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Exod 2:23 : 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.
Exod 5:18-19 : 18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. 19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
Judg 10:16-18 : 16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. 17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh. 18 And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judg 16:21 : 21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Judg 16:30 : 30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
2 Kgs 6:26-27 : 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
2 Kgs 6:33 : 33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
Neh 9:37 : 37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Job 9:13 : 13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
Ps 18:40-41 : 40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

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