Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Psalms 107:34 in other translations
| BSB | and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers. |
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| WEB | and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it. |
| ASV | A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein. |
| YLT | A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants. |
| DARBY | A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. |
| BBE | He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there. |
| Webster | A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it. |
What does Psalms 107:34 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 107:33-41
33-41. He turneth rivers into a wilderness, &c.--God's providence is illustriously displayed in His influence on two great elements of human prosperity, the earth's productiveness and the powers of government. He punishes the wicked by destroying the sources of fertility, or, in mercy, gives fruitfulness to deserts, which become the homes of a busy and successful agricultural population. By a permitted misrule and…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 107:33-43
What surprising changes are often made in the affairs of men! Let the present desolate state of Judea, and of other countries, explain this. If we look abroad in the world, we see many greatly increase, whose beginning was small. We see many who have thus suddenly risen, as suddenly brought to nothing. Worldly wealth is uncertain; often those who are filled with it, ere they are aware, lose it again. God has many…
Psalms 107:34 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 107:34
- Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
- Genesis 14:3
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
- Deuteronomy 29:23-28
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: …
- Ezekiel 47:11
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
- Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
- Isaiah 32:13-15
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
- Genesis 19:24-25
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
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Ge 13:10,13; 19:25; De 29:23-28; Isa 32:13-15
barrenness. Heb. saltness.
Ge 14:3; Eze 47:11
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Context
- Psalms 107:33
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
- Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
- Psalms 107:35
He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
Psalms 107:34 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | La tierra fructífera en salados, por la maldad de los que la habitan. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | La terre fertile en terre salée, à cause de l’iniquité de ceux qui y habitent. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Fruchtbares Land zur Salzsteppe wegen der Bosheit der darin Wohnenden. |