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Psalms 107:5

(106-5) They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Poetry of the Hebrews;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Discontent;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Wandering;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Soul;   Wilderness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hungry;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Faint;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Roads;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They were hungry and thirsty;their spirits failed within them.
Hebrew Names Version
Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
King James Version
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
English Standard Version
hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.
New Century Version
They were hungry and thirsty, and they were discouraged.
New English Translation
They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.
Amplified Bible
Hungry and thirsty, They fainted.
New American Standard Bible
They were hungry and thirsty; Their souls felt weak within them.
World English Bible
Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Both hungrie and thirstie, their soule fainted in them.
Legacy Standard Bible
Hungry and thirsty,Their soul fainted within them.
Berean Standard Bible
They were hungry and thirsty; their soul fainted within them.
Contemporary English Version
You were hungry and thirsty and about to give up.
Complete Jewish Bible
They were hungry and thirsty, their life was ebbing away.
Darby Translation
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them:
Easy-to-Read Version
They were hungry and thirsty and growing weak.
George Lamsa Translation
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Good News Translation
They were hungry and thirsty and had given up all hope.
Lexham English Bible
Hungry and thirsty, their soul grew faint within them.
Literal Translation
hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hongrie & thirstie, & their soule faynted in the.
American Standard Version
Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
Bible in Basic English
Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
King James Version (1611)
Hungry and thirstie: their soule fainted in them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
they were hungry and thirstie, their soule fainted in them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
English Revised Version
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei weren hungri and thirsti; her soule failide in hem.
Update Bible Version
Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
New King James Version
Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
New Living Translation
Hungry and thirsty, they nearly died.
New Life Bible
They were hungry and thirsty. Their souls became weak within them.
New Revised Standard
hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hungry - yea thirsty, their soul, within them, fainted:
Revised Standard Version
hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.
Young's Literal Translation
Hungry -- yea -- thirsty, Their soul in them becometh feeble,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They were hungry and thirsty; Their soul fainted within them.

Contextual Overview

1 (106-1) Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 2 (106-2) Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries. 3 (106-3) From the rising and from the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea. 4 (106-4) They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation. 5 (106-5) They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them. 6 (106-6) And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered them out of their distresses. 7 (106-7) And he led them into the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. 8 (106-8) Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men. 9 (106-9) For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry soul with good things.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 15:18, Judges 15:19, 1 Samuel 30:11, 1 Samuel 30:12, Isaiah 44:12, Jeremiah 14:18, Lamentations 2:19, Mark 8:2, Mark 8:3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:10 - found Isaiah 41:17 - I the Lord Acts 27:21 - after

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hungry and thirsty,.... As travellers in deserts sometimes are; their provisions being spent they bring with them, and none to be had on the road; there being no inns to stop at, nor any sort of food to eat, nor springs of water to drink of. In such a condition are souls, when, like the prodigal, they come to themselves, and are thoroughly convinced of their state and condition by nature; they find themselves starving and famishing, and no provision to be had from themselves or the creature: they hunger after Christ, the bread of life, and thirst after his grace, the water of life, and the blessings of it; they hunger and thirst after his righteousness, and justification by it; after the pardon of their sins through his blood, and after salvation by him, and an interest in it; after more knowledge of him, and communion with him.

Their soul fainted in them; for want of food and drink; as men do, in a spiritual sense, for want of Christ, the blessings of his grace, particularly salvation; for want of views of interest in it, of the joys and comforts of it; see Psalms 119:81. Some refer all this to the apostles and apostolic men, wandering in the Gentile world, hungry, thirsty, and without any certain dwelling place; see 1 Corinthians 4:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hungry and thirsty - As they would be, when wandering in such a desert. A more literal and expressive rendering would be, “Hungry - also thirsty.”

Their soul fainted in them - The word used here - עטף âṭaph - means properly to cover, to clothe, as with a garment, Psalms 73:6; or a field with grain, Psalms 65:13; then, to hide oneself, Job 23:9; then, to cover with darkness, Psalms 77:3; Psalms 102:0, title; thus it denotes the state of mind when darkness seems to be in the way - a way of calamity, trouble, sorrow; of weakness, faintness, feebleness. Here it would seem from the connection to refer to the exhaustion produced by the want of food and drink.


 
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