Psalms 107:34
He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
In Context
33He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;
35He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.
Genesis 14:3All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).
Deuteronomy 29:23And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:
Isaiah 32:13And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.
Ezekiel 47:11The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will 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 →