Psalm 107:34
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New International Version (©2011)
and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.

English Standard Version (©2001)
a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil 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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and fruitful land into salty wasteland, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

International Standard Version (©2012)
and a fruitful land into a salty waste, due to the wickedness of its inhabitants.

NET Bible (©2006)
and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
The land has given its fruit to a salt pit by the works of the evil ones who inhabit it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

American King James Version
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

American Standard Version
A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Darby Bible Translation
A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

English Revised Version
A fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Webster's Bible Translation
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

World English Bible
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Young's Literal Translation
A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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 ways of making men poor. The righteous shall rejoice. It shall fully convince all those who deny the Divine Providence. When sinners see how justly God takes away the gifts they have abused, they will not have a word to say. It is of great use to us to be fully assured of God's goodness, and duly affected with it. It is our wisdom to mind our duty, and to refer our comfort to him. A truly wise person will treasure in his heart this delightful psalm. From it, he will fully understand the weakness and wretchedness of man, and the power and loving-kindness of God, not for our merit, but for his mercy's sake.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 34. - A fruitful land into barrenness; literally, into saltness. The judgment upon Sodom and Gomorrah is probably in the writer's mind. For the wickedness of them that dwell therein. God does not capriciously withdraw his blessings from a land. If he turns a fruitful land into a barren one, we may be sure that the inhabitants have provoked him by their sins.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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) "in salsuginem", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Vatablus, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Junius & Tremellius; "in salsam", Cocceius. (u) Hygin. Fab. 88.

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His Loving Kindness Endures Forever
…33He turns rivers into a wilderness, and the springs into dry ground; 34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 35He turns the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into springs. …

Genesis 13:10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Genesis 14:3 All these latter kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea Valley).
Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah--from the LORD out of the heavens.
Genesis 19:25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities--and also the vegetation in the land.
Deuteronomy 29:23 The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur--nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.
Job 39:6 I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat.
Psalm 68:6 God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
Jeremiah 9:12 Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the LORD and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?
Jeremiah 12:4 How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished. Moreover, the people are saying, "He will not see what happens to us."
Jeremiah 17:6 That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
Jeremiah 22:6 For this is what the LORD says about the palace of the king of Judah: "Though you are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, I will surely make you like a wasteland, like towns not inhabited.
Jeremiah 23:10 The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land lies parched and the pastures in the wilderness are withered. The prophets follow an evil course and use their power unjustly.