Psalms 107:16

For he hath broken the gates of brass -The immediate “reason” here given for praising the Lord is that he had “broken the gates of brass,” continuing the thought fromPsalms 107:10-14. In the previous part of the psalm, in giving a reason for praising the Lord, the fact that he feeds the hungry was selectedPsalms 107:9because in the preceding part the allusion was to the sufferings of hunger and thirstPsalms 107:4-5; here the fact that he had broken the gates of brass is selected, because the allusion in the immediately preceding versesPsalms 107:12-14was to their imprisonment. In the construction of the psalm there is great regularity.