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Psalm 107:41
Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
39Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
40He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
41Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
42The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.
43Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of the LORD.
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“Yet” turns from people bowed down by sorrow to needy families growing like a flock, opening hope for lives that seem diminished.
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Psalm 113:7He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,Both passages name God as the one who lifts the needy, describing deliverance from affliction or the ash heap.
1 Samuel 2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars …Both describe God lifting the needy from distress, with Samuel’s passage extending the picture to honor among princes.
Job 21:11They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.Both compare families or children to a flock, using the same image for a household’s flourishing.
Job 5:11so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.Both describe God raising those brought low, though the statement in Job belongs to Eliphaz’s speech.
Psalm 78:52But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.Both use a flock to picture people under God’s care, emphasizing family growth here and wilderness guidance in Psalm 78.
Isaiah 49:20–22The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’Both picture families growing after loss: diminished households increase in the psalm, and children need more room in Isaiah.
Esther 8:15–17Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; …The connection is limited to well-being: growing families in the psalm, and Mordecai’s honor with Susa’s gladness in Esther.
1 Samuel 2:21The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before the LORD.Both attribute family growth to God’s action, with Hannah’s sons and daughters providing a named household in Samuel.
Job 8:7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.Both describe increase from a diminished or small beginning, though Job’s statement is spoken by Bildad.
Isaiah 33:16he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.Both portray relief from vulnerability: the needy are lifted in the psalm, while Isaiah describes secure shelter and food.
Job 42:13He had also seven sons and three daughters.The shared thread is family abundance: the psalm pictures growing households, while Job names seven sons and three daughters.
James 5:11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of …God’s care amid suffering connects these passages: the psalm describes relief for the needy, and James names the Lord’s compassion.
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Job loss or money fear. fear for the future. gratitude.
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No timetable for relief is given here. The verse names God as the one who lifts the needy and makes diminished families grow.
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