Psalm 107

Book Five opens with four stories of rescue: desert wanderers, prisoners in chains, the sick who loathed food, and sailors in a storm. Every story has the same rhythm: "Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them." Some of them were in trouble through their own rebellion, and He rescued them anyway. The storm calmed "to a whisper" anticipates Jesus on the lake (Mark 4:39).

"He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed." (Psalm 107:29)