Psalm 107 concerns God’s care for and deliverance of His redeemed in Christ. The word redeemed here implies Christ, for He is our Redeemer (Gal. 3:13; 1 Pet. 1:18-19) and even our redemption (Luke 2:38; 1 Cor. 1:30). In Christ we enjoy God’s care and deliverance, which imply His rescue and saving every day.
This gathering corresponds to Rev. 5:9, which speaks of those purchased for God by Christ’s blood “out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation.”
God’s care and deliverance of the famished wanderers in vv. 4-9, of those imprisoned in darkness and the shadow of death in vv. 10-16 (cf. Acts 26:18), of the ones who are sick because of their way of transgression in vv. 17-22 (cf. Matt. 9:2), of the seafarers in vv. 23-32, and of the needy in vv. 34-43, typify His care for and deliverance of His believers in the church life. According to the New Testament revelation, God’s care for the believers and His deliverance of the believers require that Christ be sitting in His ascension at the right hand of God, as revealed in Psa. 110. Because Christ is our High Priest in the heavens interceding for us (Rom. 8:34; Heb. 7:25), God’s care is Christ’s care for us and God’s deliverance is Christ’s deliverance of us.
Lit., its waves.
I.e., the seafarers mentioned in vv. 23-24.
Lit., their waves.
