Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
Human affairs are not ruled by blind fortune but by God's judgments in all the changes and chances of this world. Adversity, shipwreck, famine, disease, war, marks His displeasure summoning us to account for our sins; prosperity flows from His grace so He may receive the praise due a merciful Father and impartial Judge.
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Commenting on Psalm 107:1-43
Again they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. As they change in character, so do their circumstances alter. Under the old dispensation, this was very clearly to be observed; Israel's ups and downs were the direct consequences of her sins and repentance.
The sin of inhabitants ruins the soil itself. Rivers become deserts, springs vanish into dry, salty ground, not by chance but by God's just judgment on the wickedness of those who dwell there. Yet His goodness does the opposite: He turns wilderness into water-springs, making barren land abundantly fruitful.
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Commenting on Psalm 107:33-43