Psalms 107:3 - Exposition

And gathered them out of the lands (compare the prayer of Psalms 106:47 ; and for the expression, "the lands" —i . e . the foreign countries—see Psalms 106:27 ; Ezra 9:1 ). From the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. The present Hebrew text has מִיָּם , "from the sea" and so the LXX ; ἀπὸ θαλάσσης —but it is thought that probably מִיָּם is a corruption of מִיָּמִין (Cheyne), which would mean "from the south ."