Psalms 107:12

“Therefore he brought down their heart with labour, etc.] Humbled them under his mighty hand; brought down their haughty spirits and proud stomachs by one afflictive providence or another; by which the Lord humbles men, as he did the Israelites in the wilderness, and hides pride from them: or with trouble of mind, under a conviction of sin; when pride, which is the cause of rebellion against God, and of contempt of his counsel, is brought down, and the haughtiness of man laid low; and when men, humbled under a sense of sin, are made willing to submit to Christ and his righteousness, to God’s way of saving sinners by him, to the law of God, and to the Gospel of Christ. They fell down; they…”

“Therefore he brought down their heart - Their pride; their self-sufficiency; their self-complacency. They thought that they could do without God; they relied on their own resources, and were self-satisfied; but God showed them that all this was vain, and humbled them, as he often does the proud, in the dust. With labour - With trouble; with affliction; with disappointment; with reverses; with sorrow. The Hebrew word - עמל ‛âmâl - would include all this. Compare Genesis 41:51; Deuteronomy 26:7; Job 3:10; Job 16:2. They fell down - They, as it were, “stumbled” - for so the Hebrew word means. They were walking along with a haughty air, and a high look, and suddenly they stumbled and fell. And…”

“Heart - The pride and obstinacy of their hearts. Fell - They fell into hopeless miseries. Psalms 107:17”

“107:12 Exhausted by their hard labor (Lam 5:13), the people fell. While this might be expected of the wicked (Pss 9:3; 27:2), it was unlike the Israelites’ flight from Egypt (105:37).”

“he brought: Exo 2:23, Exo 5:18, Exo 5:19; Jdg 10:16-18, Jdg 16:21, Jdg 16:30; Neh 9:37; Isa 51:19, Isa 51:20, Isa 51:23; Isa 52:5; Lam 5:5, Lam 5:6; Luk 15:14-17 and there: Psa 18:40, Psa 18:41, Psa 22:11, Psa 142:4; Kg2 6:26, Kg2 6:27, Kg2 6:33; Job 9:13; Isa 63:5 Psalms 107:13”