Psalms 107:34
a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
In Context
33He turns rivers into a wilderness, and water springs into a thirsty ground,
35He turns a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou go to Zoar.
Genesis 14:3All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).
Deuteronomy 29:23[that] the whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which LORD overthrew in his anger, and i
Isaiah 32:13Thorns and briers shall come up on the land of my people, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Jeremiah 12:4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds, because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
Ezekiel 47:11But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not be healed. They shall be given up to salt.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 107:34-43
Wonders of Divine Providence. 33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. 36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation; 37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase. 38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and… Read the whole commentary →