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Contemporary English Version

Psalms 107:34

flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Famine;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - God;   Government;   Poverty;   Righteousness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Earth, the;   Fountains and Springs;   Punishment of the Wicked, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Poetry of the Hebrews;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Discontent;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Wandering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Salt;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Sin;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Salt;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Salt;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Barren;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and fruitful land into salty wasteland,because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Hebrew Names Version
And a fruitful land into a salt waste, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
King James Version
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
English Standard Version
a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
New Century Version
He made fertile land salty, because the people there did evil.
New English Translation
and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
Amplified Bible
A productive land into a [barren] salt waste, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
New American Standard Bible
And a fruitful land into a salt waste, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
World English Bible
And a fruitful land into a salt waste, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And a fruitfull land into barrennes for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.
Legacy Standard Bible
A fruitful land into a salt waste,Because of the evil of those who inhabited it.
Berean Standard Bible
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Complete Jewish Bible
productive land into salt flats, because the people living there are so wicked.
Darby Translation
A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Easy-to-Read Version
He made the fertile land become salty, because the people living there did such evil things.
George Lamsa Translation
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Good News Translation
He made rich soil become a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those who lived there.
Lexham English Bible
a fruitful land into a salty place, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
Literal Translation
a fruitful land to a salty desert; because of the wickedness of those who live in it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A frutefull londe maketh he baren, for the wickednesse of them that dwell therin.
American Standard Version
A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Bible in Basic English
He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
King James Version (1611)
A fruitfull land into barrennesse; for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He [maketh] a fruitfull grounde barren: for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
a fruitful land into saltness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.
English Revised Version
A fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He hath set fruytful lond in to saltnesse; for the malice of men dwellyng ther ynne.
Update Bible Version
A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of those that dwell therein.
Webster's Bible Translation
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.
New King James Version
A fruitful land into barrenness, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
New Living Translation
He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.
New Life Bible
He changes a land of much fruit into a salt waste because of the sin of those who live in it.
New Revised Standard
a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A Land of Fruit, into a waste of salt, For the wickedness of them who dwell therein.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(106-34) A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Revised Standard Version
a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Young's Literal Translation
A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A fruitful land into a salt waste, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Contextual Overview

33 If you start doing wrong, the Lord will turn rivers into deserts, 34 flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt. 35 But the Lord can also turn deserts into lakes and scorched land into flowing streams. 36 If you are hungry, you can settle there and build a town. 37 You can plant fields and vineyards that produce a good harvest. 38 The Lord will bless you with many children and with herds of cattle. 39 Sometimes you may be crushed by troubles and sorrows, until only a few of you are left to survive. 40 But the Lord will take revenge on those who conquer you, and he will make them wander across desert sands. 41 When you are suffering and in need, he will come to your rescue, and your families will grow as fast as a herd of sheep. 42 You will see this because you obey the Lord , but everyone who is wicked will be silenced.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a fruitful: Genesis 13:10, Genesis 13:13, Genesis 19:25, Deuteronomy 29:23-28, Isaiah 32:13-15

barrenness: Heb. saltness, Genesis 14:3, Ezekiel 47:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:17 - bring Genesis 12:10 - was a Genesis 19:28 - General Exodus 10:7 - that Egypt Leviticus 26:20 - for your land Judges 9:45 - beat Ruth 1:1 - a famine 2 Kings 8:1 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 7:13 - If I shut up heaven Job 39:6 - barren land Psalms 68:6 - the rebellious Proverbs 14:34 - but Isaiah 1:7 - country Isaiah 42:15 - General Jeremiah 4:26 - the fruitful Jeremiah 5:25 - General Jeremiah 9:12 - for Jeremiah 12:4 - the herbs Jeremiah 22:6 - surely Jeremiah 23:10 - the pleasant Ezekiel 12:19 - because Ezekiel 32:15 - destitute of that whereof Hosea 9:6 - nettles Joel 1:6 - my Micah 3:12 - Zion Haggai 1:6 - have Hebrews 6:8 - beareth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A fruitful land into barrenness,.... Or, "into saltness" t; as Sodom and the land adjacent became a salt sea; and the land of Canaan was threatened to become brimstone, salt and burning, like Sodom; in which nothing was sown, and which bore no grass; see

Genesis 14:3 and so the Targum,

"the land of Israel, which brought forth fruit, he hath destroyed, as Sodom was overthrown.''

For the wickedness of them that dwell therein; this was the cause of the overthrow of Sodom, and of the destruction of that fine country, as also of Canaan afterwards; see Genesis 13:13. The very Heathens had a notion that barrenness and unfruitfulness in countries were owing to the sins of men; hence the sterility and famine at Mycenas were attributed to the wickedness of Atreus u. This may figuratively be understood of the present state and condition of the Jews; who were once a people well watered with the word and ordinances, and had the first preaching of the Gospel among them; but, rejecting and despising it, are now become like a desert, barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of divine things: and it might be illustrated by the case of several Christian churches; the seven churches of Asia, and others, once as well watered gardens, but now are no more; and the places where they stood are destitute of spiritual knowledge, and the means of it.

t למלחה "in salsuginem", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Vatablus, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Junius Tremellius "in salsam", Cocceius. u Hygin. Fab. 88.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A fruitful land - Hebrew, A land of fruit. That is, a land that would produce abundance. The word “fruit” here is not used in the limited sense in which we now employ it, but means any productions of the earth.

Into barrenness - Margin, as in Hebrew, “saltness.” The word is used to denote a barren soil, because where salt “abounds” the soil “is” barren. Thus it is around the Dead Sea. Compare Job 39:6; Jeremiah 17:6. See also Virg. Geor. II. 238, “Salsa ... tellus - frugibus infelix;” Pliny, Hist. Nat. 31. 7; Bochart, Hieroz. t. i., p. 872.

For the wickedness of them that dwell therein - As he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah; probably alluding to that.


 
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