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Psalms 107:34

What does Psalms 107:34 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 107:34 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Not available in this translation

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.33He turneth rivers into a wilderness, And watersprings into a thirsty ground;

v.34This passage

v.35He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, And a dry land into watersprings.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 13:10

    And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.

  • Deuteronomy 29:23

    and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

  • Ezekiel 47:11

    But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

  • Genesis 13:13

    Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly.

  • Isaiah 32:13

    Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

  • Genesis 19:24

    Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;

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