The Meaning of Psalms 107:26 Explained

Psalms 107:26

KJV: They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

YLT: They go up to the heavens, they go down to the depths, Their soul in evil is melted.

Darby: They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble;

ASV: They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths: Their soul melteth away because of trouble.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

They mount up  to the heaven,  they go down  again to the depths:  their soul  is melted  because of trouble. 

What does Psalms 107:26 Mean?

Context Summary

Psalms 107:17-32 - "his Wonders In The Deep"
Sickness yields the third type of suffering. Emphasis is laid on the cause of the suffering, which in the view of the writer is transgression and sin. We shall be justified, therefore, in confining our view of this section to the pain which is directly traceable to wrong-doing. Men ruin their health by evil courses, and the sinner drags down his punishment with his own hands. The portals of death had already opened to receive the sick men, but before they passed through they cried to Jehovah, and though their voice was feeble, they were heard. May we not make our own application of Psalms 107:20, by referring it to that Word of God through whom God's love and healing came to sinners in the days of his flesh?
The storm at sea is the next tableau. We have the sudden gale, the high waves, the ship now on the crest and then in the trough; the terror of the crew; the failure of the helm; the desperation of the sailors; and finally the voice of God above and through the storm. The sudden subsidence of the tempest is a grateful change to the sailors and the crew; and what gladness is theirs when they reach the harbor which they had longed for but had never thought to see again! Such is life, and such will be, by God's mercy our coming into harbor. "Safe into the haven guide"! [source]

Chapter Summary: Psalms 107

1  The psalmist exhorts the redeemed in praising God to observe his manifold providence
4  Over travelers
10  Over captives
17  Over sick men
23  Over sailors
33  And in diverse varieties of life

What do the individual words in Psalms 107:26 mean?

They mount up to the heavens they go down again to the depths their soul because of trouble melts
יַעֲל֣וּ שָׁ֭מַיִם יֵרְד֣וּ תְהוֹמ֑וֹת נַ֝פְשָׁ֗ם בְּרָעָ֥ה תִתְמוֹגָֽג

יַעֲל֣וּ  They  mount  up 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: סָלַק 
Sense: to go up, ascend, climb.
שָׁ֭מַיִם  to  the  heavens 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: שָׁמַיִם  
Sense: heaven, heavens, sky.
יֵרְד֣וּ  they  go  down  again 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: יָרַד  
Sense: to go down, descend, decline, march down, sink down.
תְהוֹמ֑וֹת  to  the  depths 
Parse: Noun, common plural
Root: תְּהֹום  
Sense: deep, depths, deep places, abyss, the deep, sea.
נַ֝פְשָׁ֗ם  their  soul 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine plural
Root: נֶפֶשׁ  
Sense: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion.
בְּרָעָ֥ה  because  of  trouble 
Parse: Preposition-b, Adjective, feminine singular
Root: רַע 
Sense: bad, evil.
תִתְמוֹגָֽג  melts 
Parse: Verb, Hitpael, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: מוּג  
Sense: to melt, cause to melt.

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