The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 107:33-42

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Professor Cheyne finds in this passage—which he views as an "appendix" to the psalm—a falling off from the earlier portion of the psalm, and a set of "sentences strung together without much reflection."

But to others the transition from special deliverances to God's general dealings with mankind seems an enlargement and an advance in the thought, although the language may be less graphic and more commonplace than in the former portion of the composition.

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