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Ps 107:41 King James Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction - Margin, "after." The sense is not materially different. The idea is, that while he thus humbles princes, bringing them down from their lofty position, he has respect to the poor in their condition of suffering and trial, and raises them from that depressed state, and gives them prosperity. Thus he orders the circumstances of people, and shows his sovereignty.

And maketh him families like flock - Numerous as a flock. Large families were accounted a blessing among the Hebrews. See the notes at Psa 107:38.
 
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38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.