King James Version
Psalms 107:12 in the King James Version says “Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 107 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.”
Psalms 107:12 · KJV
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Therefore he brought down”
H3665properly, to bend the knee; hence, to humiliate, vanquish
“their heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
“they fell down”
H3782to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
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