Psalms 107:19

Study note

Setting — The psalmist records a collective group appealing to Yahweh during acute crisis, positioned between their description of near-death affliction in verse 18 and the subsequent healing and rescue in verse 20.

The words — The verb וַיִּזְעֲקוּ (va-yiz'aqu) translates literally as "and they cried out," while the verb יוֹשִׁיעֵם (yo'shi'em) means "he saved them," framing the verse as a direct cause-and-effect statement.

The thread — This structural pattern of desperate appeal followed by recorded deliverance recurs in Psalms 34:4, Psalms 78:34, and Psalms 30:8, where distress consistently triggers a cry that meets divine intervention.

Why it lands — The passage demands recognition that crisis prompts the appeal and that the text records God's saving action as the factual outcome, not as a conditional promise to be extracted.

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