Our Deliverer
Psalm 105 is popularly thought among Bible scholars to refer to the salvific acts of God towards the patriarchs of Israel, beginning with God’s Covenant with Abraham to some 640 years later with the exodus from Egypt. Psalm 106 picks up with the Red Sea crossing, then comes the grumbling of God’s rescued Israelites and their worship of the golden calf. They continue to fail in being faithful to Yahweh (God) although He led them to the land which He had promised them, blessed by His favor. Psalm 107 begins a fifth and final section of the Psalter (the book of Psalms) but it neither gives clues to which events of Israel’s rebellion nor specific events of Yahweh’s grace and mercy towards them. Verses 4-5 sing of the life of many who reject Yahweh, lacking a desire to be of Him, “Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in.”