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Psalms 107:40
He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist declares God's judgment on proud leaders immediately after describing a people humbled by oppression and sorrow. The words — The Hebrew בּ֭וּז (buz) translates literally to "contempt," paired with the verb שֹׁפֵ֣ךְ (sho.Fekh) meaning "he pours out." The thread — This pattern of God humbling leaders appears in Job 12:21, Job 12:24, and Daniel 4:33. Why it lands — The text states that divine action removes human status and leaves leaders without direction, requiring readers to reject reliance on earthly power.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Cross-references
- Job 12:24 He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- Job 12:21 He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
- Daniel 4:33 At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
- Isaiah 23:8 Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?
- Exodus 8:3 The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
- Exodus 8:17 This they did, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:24 And the LORD did so. Thick swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined by swarms of flies.
- Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
- Joshua 10:24 When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.
- Judges 1:6 As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.