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Psalm 107:18-19
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 107:18-19
New Catholic Bible
18 All types of food became loathsome to them,
and they were nearing the gates of death.[a]
19 Then they cried out to the Lord in their anguish,
and he rescued them from their distress.
Footnotes
- Psalm 107:18 Gates of death: metaphorical description for death (see Pss 9:14; 88:4) in keeping with the ancient custom of picturing the realm of death as a city in the netherworld with a series of gates that prevented return to the land of the living (see Job 38:17; Mt 16:18).
