Psalms 107:41 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Psalms 107:33–42
• Psalms 107:1–43

Read Psalms 107:41 with 107:33–42 and 107:1–43. Read alone, “Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him…” could lose the communal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 107:33–42, the communal voice carries the movement “Providence reverses land and status” as part of “Let the redeemed tell four rescue stories.” Its thanksgiving-wisdom form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.

Why This Verse Appears Here

Psalms 107:33–42 answers or redirects “Sailors delivered from storm” within Psalm 107 by carrying “Providence reverses land and status.” The turn from “Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of…” to “He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground” explains why this movement occurs here. Within that relationship, Psalm 107:41 turns the movement by contrasting what precedes it with “Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like….”