He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
The verse belongs to the history of Israel recorded in Psalm 107, and study of that history shows God's goodness, mercy, and love. It describes people sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron, because they rebelled against the words of God and contemned the counsel of the Most High. Their hearts were brought down with labor until they fell down with none to help.
The verse also applies to the repentant people of Nineveh after Jonah's warning, who had long lived in blind misery under sentence of death, in spiritual darkness and death, bound by suffering, affliction, and sin. Though the foretold destruction of Nineveh did not happen, the warning was still from God and accomplished what God meant it to do by revealing His grace and the glory of His grace among the heathen.
When they cried to the Lord in their trouble, He saved them out of their distresses by bringing them out of darkness and the shadow of death and breaking the bonds that held them. He lifted them from their gloomy condemned state, tore loose what held them, and sent His word to heal them and save them from ruin. This deliverance calls people to praise the Lord for His goodness, His loving-kindness, and His wonderful works to the children of men. The ground for that praise is that He has broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
The verse belongs to the history of Israel recorded in Psalm 107, and study of that history shows God's goodness, mercy, and love. It describes people sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron, because they rebelled against the words of God and contemned the counsel of the Most High. Their hearts were brought down with labor until they fell down with none to help.
The verse also applies to the repentant people of Nineveh after Jonah's warning, who had long lived in blind misery under sentence of death, in spiritual darkness and death, bound by suffering, affliction, and sin. Though the foretold destruction of Nineveh did not happen, the warning was still from God and accomplished what God meant it to do by revealing His grace and the glory of His grace among the heathen.
When they cried to the Lord in their trouble, He saved them out of their distresses by bringing them out of darkness and the shadow of death and breaking the bonds that held them. He lifted them from their gloomy condemned state, tore loose what held them, and sent His word to heal them and save them from ruin. This deliverance calls people to praise the Lord for His goodness, His loving-kindness, and His wonderful works to the children of men. The ground for that praise is that He has broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron in sunder.