Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
In Context
33He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of water into dry ground:
35He hath turned a wilderness into pools of water, and a dry land into water springs.
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And Lot, lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.
Genesis 14:3All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the salt sea.
Deuteronomy 29:23Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:
Isaiah 32:13Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?
Jeremiah 12:4How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds are consumed: because they have said: He shall not see our last end.
Ezekiel 47:11But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits.
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 →