I'm a 'they' and a 'them'... and so saying! If you're a 'they' you also ought to 'say'!

I have spent days milking what God has said to us in Psalm 107. I love what He says there. His words are huge! He says so much. He draws such a vivid picture of His people and how He delivers them. Whoa, at the reflection this psalm shows of God's faithfulness and His UN-FAIL-ing LOVE toward His children! His GOoDness astounds me! Wow, at His love that truly endures through all of our wanderings, our rebellion, our faithlessness, and our folly. He loves us so. And thus, continues to go to such extremes to save us!

Below you'll find some of the noting I've done as I've dug through the verses of this song. I hope you enjoy a piece of my dig as much as I did.

Psalm 107:

"1 Give THANKS to the LORD…. laud Him, praise Him…., for He is Good; His love….. His goodness, His mercy, His faithfulness, His loving-kindness….. endures forever…. continuously, for ever and ever, indefinitely, always, unendingly.

2 Let the redeemed of the LORD s-a-y this……

..… Let the avenged speak….. Let the ransomed tell….

Let the purchased pronounce…. Let the delivered recount….

Let the liberated state…. Let the released express…

Let the set free give tongue and impart this….

[KJV - “Let the redeemed of the LORD say so”… ]

those

He redeemed from the hand of the foe…

….. those that He rescued from their enemy,

from their adversary, from their oppressor,

from their afflicter, from their distress,

 from their trouble, from their affliction,

from their sorrow…….,

3 those

He gathered from the lands,

from east and west, from north and south.

4 Some [of those] 

wandered in desert wastelands……

strayed to deserted lands, drifted to desolate places,

staggered to solitude, were seduced to ruin,

were mislead to waste…..,

finding no way [no road, no distance, no journey, no manner,

no habit, no course, no moral character] to a city where they could settle…. abide, remain, inhabit, sit down, dwell, stay.
 

5 They

were hungry and thirsty,

and their lives…. their souls, their life, their person, their appetite, their desire, their emotion, their passion, their heart, their mind,

their will, their character…….… ebbed away…. turned aside, grew feeble, grew faint, grew weak, failed, enveloped into itself.
 

6 THEN they

CRIED OUT to the LORD I-N their trouble,

and HE delivered them….. snatched them away, rescued them, saved them, plucked them up, recovered them, took them out..…FROM their distress.

7 He LED them by a straight….. a right, correct, pleasing, fitting, proper….

way…. road, direction, journey, manner, path, habit, course of life, moral character…

to a city where they could settle…. abide, remain, inhabit, sit down, dwell, stay.
 

8 Let THEM

give THANKS to the LORD FOR His unfailing love AND His wonderful deeds…… marvelous deeds, extraordinary deeds, distinguishing acts, the things He does beyond our power, the things He does that is too difficult for us to do, the things He does that is too surpassing in greatness for us to be able to understand, His wonders …… FOR men.

9 FOR HE s-a-t-i-s-f-i-e-s

…… He satiates…. He fills…. He fulfills…. He gives in excess…. He enriches…. He gives plenty…. He gives enough to……

the thirsty ["the longing soul”….. the mind that runs to and fro, the desires that rushes back and forth, the emotions with a ranging appetite, the desires and passions that frantically search and is eager and greedy and thirsty for something]

and f-i-l-l-s ……… replenishes, overflows, gives in abundance, satisfies completely, fills to full, wholly and accomplished………. the hungry …. the one stricken with hunger, suffering being famished, failing in strength, starved!….. with good things ….. with pleasant, with agreeable, with good, with excellent, with glad, with happy, with what’s beneficial, with happiness.

10 Some

sat…. dwelled, remained, inhabited, stayed, abided in, continued, tarried….. in darkness…. hidden in obscurity, secret places, places of the night, concealed in the dark…..

and the deepest gloom,

prisoners…… those taken as a prisoner, a captive, being bound to, tied, imprisoned, harnessed, bound with cords…….…. suffering…… afflicted, miserable, troubled, bowed down, oppressed, stooped…. in iron chains…. tools of iron, harshness, strength, oppression,

11 for they

had rebelled…. they disobeyed, they were bitter towards…. against the words…..[eber] the utterances… the words, the sayings, the promises, the answers, the discourse, the commands of God

and despised… abhorred, detested, hated, loathed… the counsel….. [etsah] counsel, advice, plan, purpose…. of the Most High [The One (the Name) Above ALL Names! The MOST Highest and Uppermost].

12 So He subjected them…. He humbled their hearts, He subdued their wills, He lowered them (to bow the knee, to fall on their knees), He bowed their knees…. He subjected their minds, their appetites, their emotions and passions…… to bitter labor…. to toil, to trouble, to labor, to sorrow, to grief, to pain, to wickedness, to labor (especially with toil and weariness), to anguish, to misery,

they stumbled…. they staggered, they tottered, they were injured and ruined and overthrown, they were made weak and cast down……, and there was no one to help… no one to support them, no one to give them aid, no one to lend them a hand.

13 THEN they

CRIED OUT to the LORD I-N their trouble,

and HE saved them FROM their distress.

14 He BROUGHT THEM OUT
of darkness and the deepest gloom

and broke away their chains.

15 LET THEM

give THANKS to the LORD FOR His unfailing love

AND His wonderful deeds FOR men,

16 FOR HE b-r-e-a-k-s down…… breaks into pieces, rends down, wrecks, crushes, shatters….., gates…. doors, lids, jaws…… of bronze…. copper, bronze, fetters, lusts, harlotry, chains, filthiness, steel…… and cuts through bars….. fortresses, gates, cross-beams, bars..….. of iron…..iron, tools of iron, harshness, strength, oppression.

17 Some

became fools…… those who despise wisdom, those who mock when guilty, those who are quarrelsome, those who are licentious [immoral, wicked]….. through their rebellious ways…..though their ways of rebellion, roads of wrongdoing, distances of guilt, journeys of sin, manner of trespasses, paths of breaking away, direction of revolts, habits of wrongdoing, course of crimes, misbehaving character……

and suffered afflictions….. oppression, depression, being bowed down, humiliation…. because of their iniquities……. perversity, depravity, guilt, fault, mischief, sin…… because of their wrong doing, iniquity, their bending, their turning, their twists, their distortion, their perverted-ness.

18 They

….. “their soul”….. their person, their appetite, their mind, their desire, their emotion, their passions, their will, their heart, their character…… loathed……abhorred, detested ……. all food…. “all manner of meat”…. food supply, meal, eating………. and drew near the gates [doors] of death.

19 THEN they

CRIED OUT to the LORD I-N their trouble,

and HE saved them FROM their distress.  

20 He sent forth His Word… (dabar) word, words, sayings, utterances, commandments, business, occupation, acts, commands, promises, talk….. and healed them…and made them healthy, healed them, cured them, repaired them, sewed together their wounds to mend them (one stitch at a time)……;

[ I love that! I love that He still ‘sends’ forth His word! And that He ‘sends’ it forth in a myriad of ways…. through His Scripture, in a devotional, through the mouth of a preacher, a teacher, a friend, a card….etc. He still sends forth His Word in hopes to bring healing. ]

He RESCUED… He delivered, He saved…… them from the grave….. from destruction, from the pit.

21 LET THEM

give THANKS to the LORD FOR His unfailing love

AND His wonderful deeds FOR men.

22 LET THEM 

sacrifice thank offerings… “And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving….”…. confession, praise, thanksgiving…..(comes from the root: yadah – to throw, shoot, cast, to profess, to confess; perhaps to show or point out with the hand extended! (from the idea of the hand being cast forth, i.e. extended… hence to show by the extended hand), give thanks, laud, praise) …………

AND TELL… count, recount, relate, number, rehearse, declare, to scratch, to scrape….. of His works… His deeds, His acts, His businesses, His pursuits, His undertaking, His achievements, His work, His deliverances, His judgements, what He has fashioned, what He has accomplished, what He has made…… WITH SONGS OF JOY….. a ringing cry, singing, a proclamation, joy, rejoicing, gladness, praise.

23 Others

went out on the sea in ships;

they

were merchants….. their occupation, their work, their business, their service, their use…… on the mighty…… much, many, great, abounding in, more numerous than………. waters.

24 They saw

……. “These SEE”……They look at, They inspect, They perceive, They consider, They observe, They give attention to. ………. the works of the LORD, His wonderful deeds in the deep.

25 For He spoke and stirred up a tempest that lifted high the waves. 26 They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths;

in their peril [ra’] their courage [nephesh] melted away [fainted, softened, dissolved, dissipated, was consumed, perished].

27 They
reeled and staggered like drunken men;

they
were at their wits' end …. end of their wits, end of their ideas, end of their wisdom.

28 THEN they

CRIED OUT to the LORD I-N their trouble,

and HE BROUGHT them OUT of their distress.

29 He stilled the storm….. tempest, whirlwind, storm, rage, trouble…. to a whisper; …to a calm, to a silence, to stillness…. the waves of the sea were hushed…silenced, quieted, made still, made inactive….

30 THEY
were glad……. joyful, merry, rejoicing……. when it grew calm…..when it ceased, when it hushed, when it was silent….,

and HE GUIDED them…..lead them…. to their desired haven…..their pleasure, their purpose. their delight.

31 Let them

give thanks for the LORD

FOR His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds FOR men.

32 Let them

exalt Him….. lift Him, raise Him up….. in the assembly of the people and praise Him….. boast in Him, make Him to shine, celebrate Him, renown Him, glorify Him ….. in the council of the elders...."

Did you see it? Did you see the theys and the thems, the somes and the others? So many of them were me! Incredible, when you really stop to think about it! I'm a "those"....... (one of those that God has "redeemed")....... I’m a “some” that wandered, and that was a prisoner taken captive and put in chains...... I’m a “they”…. and a “them”……… so many of those that God is talking about here.

This is the psalm that prompted me to name this blog with the name that I did. It is because of all that God has done for me that there is now a fire in my bones and I am compelled to say! He TELLS us to say... and thus,  I fully intend to SAY SO!!

Say what exactly? What am I supposed to be saying?

That the LORD is GOoD!!! And that His love ENDURES forever!

I hope you find great 'delight' in our Savior, and that you not only see yourself in these scriptures; but that you are convicted to do a LOT of 'saying' about God's love because you are!

Again... Let us give thanks for the LORD, for His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds for men. Let us exalt Him, lift Him, raise Him up in the assembly of His people and praise Him, boast in Him, make Him to shine, celebrate Him, renown Him, glorify Him in the council of all that we meet!

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