Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress. He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still. Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.
⛓ Read Psalm 107 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Paul's confident promise that all aboard will be preserved anticipates the psalm's resolution — the distressed cry, God stilling the storm, and the survivors brought safe to harbor. The assurance that 'it will be just as it has been spoken to me' embodies the providential rescue the psalm celebrates.
Medium confidenceThe chapter's denouement realizes the psalm's climax: after the tempest, God 'bringeth them unto their desired haven' — here all 276 aboard 'escaped safely to the land.' The bringing of every imperiled person out of the storm to dry land is the psalmist's pattern of deliverance enacted in narrative.
Medium confidence