Psalm 107:35
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New International Version (©2011)
He turned the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs;

New Living Translation (©2007)
But he also turns deserts into pools of water, the dry land into springs of water.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He changes a wilderness into a pool of water And a dry land into springs of water;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He turns a desert into a pool of water, dry land into springs of water.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He turns a desert into a pool of water, dry land into springs of water.

NET Bible (©2006)
As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
For he makes the wilderness pools of waters and a thirsty land into springs of waters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He changes deserts into lakes and dry ground into springs.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He turns the wilderness into a pool of water, and dry ground into water springs.

American King James Version
He turns the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into springs.

American Standard Version
He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, And a dry land into watersprings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath turned a wilderness into pools of water, and a dry land into water springs.

Darby Bible Translation
He maketh the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs;

English Revised Version
He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into watersprings.

Webster's Bible Translation
He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into water-springs.

World English Bible
He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

Young's Literal Translation
He maketh a wilderness become a pool of water, And a dry land become fountains of waters.

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 35. - He turneth the wilderness into a standing water; rather, a wilderness (comp. Isaiah 35:7; Isaiah 41:18). And dry ground into water springs. The entire verse is antithetical to ver. 33.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water,.... On the other hand, when it is the pleasure of God, a country uncultivated and like a desert, he makes it fruitful as one that is well watered and tilled; as this country of ours, and the land in America, once waste places, now fruitful ones.

And dry ground into water springs: which is expressive of the same thing, and may he figuratively understood of the Gentile world; which, before the coming of Christ, and the preaching of the Gospel, and the pouring down of the Spirit, was like a wilderness and dry ground; but now watered with the word and ordinances, and the grace of God, and in many places has become fruitful in grace and good works. The Targum prefaces this verse thus,

"when they return unto the law, he turneth, &c.''

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His Loving Kindness Endures Forever
…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. 36And there he makes the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation; …

2 Kings 3:17 For this is what the LORD says: You will see neither wind nor rain, yet this valley will be filled with water, and you, your cattle and your other animals will drink.
Job 38:27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?
Psalm 84:6 As they pass through the Valley of Baka, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
Psalm 104:10 He makes springs pour water into the ravines; it flows between the mountains.
Psalm 105:41 He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
Psalm 114:8 who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.
Isaiah 29:17 In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?
Isaiah 32:15 till the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest.
Isaiah 35:6 Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
Isaiah 35:7 The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.
Isaiah 41:18 I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.