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David from the Bible wrote many psalms for that book. These were a way a teaching the young about the past. To sing psalms is the proper way to read them. Some of the chapters tell of love and faith, while others talk of sin and the law. Psalms 107 is a hymn inviting those who have been rescued by God to give praise to him. As is with all psalms, it is a look at history, in this cause of Israel. This chapter consists of four archetypal divine rescues. Each rescue ends in giving thanks: from the sterile desert, from imprisonment in gloom, from mortal illness, and from the angry sea. It is said that the number four signifies totality, all the possible varieties of rescue. The same saving activity of God is shown in Israel's history whenever the people were endangered God rescued them. The last verses invite people to ponder the persistent saving acts of God. Psalm 107:23-31 is all about being saved from the angry sea.
"They that go down to the sea in ships, that do......

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