14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
14 He brought them out of darkness, the utter darkness, and broke away their chains.
14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.
14 He led you out of your dark, dark cell, broke open the jail and led you out.
14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their chains in pieces.
14 He led them from the darkness and deepest gloom; he snapped their chains.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 107:14
Commentary on Psalm 107:10-16
(Read Psalm 107:10-16)
This description of prisoners and captives intimates that they are desolate and sorrowful. In the eastern prisons the captives were and are treated with much severity. Afflicting providences must be improved as humbling providences; and we lose the benefit, if our hearts are unhumbled and unbroken under them. This is a shadow of the sinner's deliverance from a far worse confinement. The awakened sinner discovers his guilt and misery. Having struggled in vain for deliverance, he finds there is no help for him but in the mercy and grace of God. His sin is forgiven by a merciful God, and his pardon is accompanied by deliverance from the power of sin and Satan, and by the sanctifying and comforting influences of God the Holy Spirit.