Psalms 107:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 88:3 : 3 For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.
  • Ps 9:13 : 13 when they prayed:“Have mercy on me, LORD! See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, O one who can snatch me away from the gates of death!
  • Isa 38:10 : 10 “I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’
  • Job 33:19-22 : 19 Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones, 20 so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare. 21 His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible. 22 He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.
  • Job 38:17 : 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?

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  • Job 33:20-22
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    20so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

    21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

    22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

  • Ps 107:5-6
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    5They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.

    6They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • Ps 107:17
    77%

    17They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, and suffered because of their sins.

  • Ps 107:19
    76%

    19They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • Job 6:7
    76%

    7I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.

  • Ps 78:30
    74%

    30They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,

  • Ps 33:19
    73%

    19by saving their lives from death and sustaining them during times of famine.

  • Ps 78:18
    72%

    18They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

  • Isa 8:21
    72%

    21They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.

  • Job 21:25
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    25And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

  • Ezek 4:17
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    17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

  • Ps 107:26-28
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    26They reached up to the sky, then dropped into the depths. The sailors’ strength left them because the danger was so great.

    27They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.

    28They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • Job 30:3-4
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    3gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.

    4By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7The one whose appetite is satisfied loathes honey, but to the hungry mouth every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Ps 107:9-13
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    9For he has satisfied those who thirst, and those who hunger he has filled with food.

    10They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,

    11because they had rebelled against God’s commands, and rejected the instructions of the Most High.

    12So he used suffering to humble them; they stumbled and no one helped them up.

    13They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • Lev 11:11
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    11Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.

  • Ps 109:24
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    24I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.

  • Isa 65:4
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    4They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.

  • Ps 106:15
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    15He granted their request, then struck them with a disease.

  • Isa 66:24
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    24“They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, and the fire that consumes them will not die out. All people will find the sight abhorrent.”

  • Ps 79:2
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    2They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.

  • Ps 107:39
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    39As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.

  • Ps 106:28
    68%

    28They worshiped Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

  • Num 11:33
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    33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

  • Ps 105:35
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    35They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields.

  • 2 Kgs 4:40
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    40The stew was poured out for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out,“Death is in the pot, O prophet!” They could not eat it.

  • Lam 1:11
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    11כ(Kaf) All her people groaned as they searched for a morsel of bread. They exchanged their valuables for just enough food to stay alive. Jerusalem Speaks:“Look, O LORD! Consider that I have become worthless!”

  • Job 36:14
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    14They die in their youth, and their life ends among the male cultic prostitutes.

  • Lam 4:9
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    9ט(Tet) Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food.

  • Ezek 4:14
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    14And I said,“Ah, Sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”

  • Job 20:14
    68%

    14his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

  • Ps 78:33
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    33So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

  • Lam 1:19
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    19ק(Qof) I called for my lovers, but they had deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city. Truly they had searched for food to keep themselves alive.

  • Ps 116:3
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    3The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.

  • Ps 59:15
    67%

    15They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

  • Hos 7:14
    67%

    14They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me.

  • Hos 9:4
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    4They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.

  • Num 21:5
    67%

    5And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

  • Jer 16:4
    67%

    4They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.

  • Ps 18:5
    67%

    5The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.