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Psalms 107:17

107:16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

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Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

107:18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

What does Psalms 107:17 mean?

Psalms 107:17 is a verse in the book of Psalms, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include אֱוִיל (ʼĕvîyl), דֶּרֶךְ (derek), פֶּשַׁע (peshaʻ).

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Foolsאֱוִילʼĕvîyl/ev-eel'/H191(figuratively) silly
becauseדֶּרֶךְderek/deh'-rek/H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
of
their
transgression,פֶּשַׁעpeshaʻ/peh'-shah/H6588a revolt (national, moral or religious)
and
because
of
their
iniquities,עָוֺןʻâvôn/aw-vone'/H5771perversity, i.e. (moral) evil
are
afflicted.עָנָהʻânâh/aw-naw'/H6031to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)

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Afflictions of the Wicked, theChastisementPrayerSickness

Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Psalms 107:17.

Exodus 34:7

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

Leviticus 16:21

And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: a fit: Heb. a man of opportunity

Numbers 14:18

The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

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What does Psalms 107:17 say?

Psalms 107:17 (King James Version) reads: "Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted."

Is Psalms 107:17 in the Old or New Testament?

Psalms 107:17 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Psalms.

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