Psalms 107:6

“Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, etc.] To be directed in their way, and for food and drink, as travellers do when in such distress. Natural men, even the very Heathens, when in distress, will cry unto God for relief, as Jonah’s mariners did, (Jon 1:5). It is a time of trouble with awakened sinners, when they are convinced of sin by the Spirit of God; when they are pricked to the heart with a sense of it; when the terrors of death and hell get hold of them; when they see themselves lost and undone, and in a wrong way, and know not what to do; when they find themselves starving and ready to perish; and then they cry, that is, pray, unto the Lord, the God of their lives, whose…”

“Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble - The language in this verse is repeated in this psalm in Psalms 107:13, Psalms 107:19, Psalms 107:28 - as if this were the main subject of the psalm, that when the people of God in different circumstances, or under various forms of trouble, call upon God, he hears them and delivers them. And he delivered them out of their distresses - The verb from which the noun used here is derived has the idea of being “narrow, straitened, compressed.” Hence, the word comes to be used in the sense of distress of any kind - as if one were pressed down, or compressed painfully in a narrow space. return to 'Top of Page'”

“The Lord - Heb. Unto Jehovah, to the true God. For the Heathens had, many of them, some knowledge of the true God. Psalms 107:7”

“107:6 The psalmist does not specify the occasion of his trouble and distress. The generic nature of the adversity permits readers in a variety of circumstances to identify with the laments.”

“Then: Psa 107:13, Psa 107:19, Psa 107:28, Psa 50:15, Psa 91:15; Isa 41:17, Isa 41:18; Jer 29:12-14; Hos 5:15; Heb 4:15, Heb 4:16 he delivered: Co2 1:8-10, Co2 12:8-10; Ti2 3:11 Psalms 107:7”