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Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Psalms 107:41 · King James Version
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  • WEB Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
  • BSB But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
  • NKJV Yet He sets the poor on high, far from affliction, And makes their families like a flock.
  • NASB But He sets the needy securely on high, away from affliction, And makes his families like a flock.
  • NLT But he rescues the poor from trouble and increases their families like flocks of sheep.

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Yet God lifts the needy out of affliction and multiplies their families like flocks.

Overview

In contrast to the humbled princes, God raises the poor from misery and grants them flourishing households. He reverses human estimations, exalting the lowly and providing abundantly. This pattern of lifting the needy anticipates the gospel's great reversal, where God exalts the humble and the meek inherit the earth through Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • 1 Sam 2:8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them.
  • Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
  • Ps 78:52But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
  • Isa 49:20–22The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
  • 1 Sam 2:21And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
  • Job 8:7Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
  • Esth 8:15–17And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
  • Job 42:10–12And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
  • Ruth 4:14–17And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.
  • Job 11:15–19For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
  • Jas 5:11Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
  • Gen 48:11And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
  • Ps 128:6Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.
  • Job 42:16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
  • Jer 52:31–34And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,
  • Ps 113:7–9He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
  • Gen 23:5–7And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
  • Job 5:11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
  • Prov 17:6Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 107:41 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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