King James Version
Psalms 107:26 in the King James Version says “They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 107 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.”
Psalms 107:26 · KJV
These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. raiseth: Heb. maketh to stand
They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. are: Heb. all their wisdom is swallowed up
Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“They mount up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“to the heaven”
H8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
“they go down”
H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau
“again to the depths”
H8415an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply)
“their soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
“is melted”
H4127to melt, i.e., literally (to soften, flow down, disappear), or figuratively (to fear, faint)
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