Psalms 107:34 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

Psalms 107:34 - Albert 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 production...

Psalms 107:34 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

BOOK V. PSS. CVII.- CL. CVII. A Psalm of Thanksgiving for Yahweh's Special Goodness. It is divided at Psalms 107:8 f., Psalms 107:15 f., Psalms 107:21 f., Psalms 107:31 f. by a refrain: v...

Psalms 107:34 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

wickedness. Hebrew. ra'a' . App-44.

Psalms 107:34 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

Psalms 107:34 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 107:34 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Book 5 This book, which seems originally to have been joined with Book 4, contains forty-four Pss., the vast majority of which are of late date. The contents of these Pss. are a surer guide to the...

Psalms 107:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Barrenness. — Better, a salt marsh, as in LXX. and Vulg. (See Job 39:6 .)

Psalms 107:34 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 107:1-43 NOTWITHSTANDING the division of Books which separates Psalm evil from the two preceding, it is a pendant to these. The "gathering from among the heathen" prayed for in Psalms 106:...

Psalms 107:34 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the “Loving-Kindnesses of the Lord” Psalms 107:33-43 The measure changes here. From Psalms 107:33 the psalmist drops the refrain and describes, not deliverance from peril or pain, but the sud...

Psalms 107:34 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

WE now begin the fifth and last book of the Psalter. In this book the music is richest and fullest. It begins in this psalm on the fundamental notes, and rises through major and minor, by the way of...

Psalms 107:34 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

From the wonders of redeeming grace upon the mighty waters, the Psalmist makes a transition to the dry and barren land of the wilderness, whence he takes occasion to set forth another striking repres...

Psalms 107:34 - John 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...

Psalms 107:34 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. Ver. 34. A fruitful land into barrenness ] Heb. saltness. See Luk 14:34-35 Deu 29:23 Judges 9:45 . Salt breedeth ba...

Psalms 107:34 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He turneth rivers Land watered with rivers; into a wilderness Into dry ground, as it follows, like a parched and barren wilderness, that has not moisture enough to produce any thing valuable; a...

Psalms 107:34 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Wonders of Divine Providence.       33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;   34 A frui...

Psalms 107:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Into barrenness, Heb. into saltness , which procures barrenness. See Deuteronomy 29:23 Judges 9:45 . For the wickedness of them that dwell therein; he doth not inflict these judgments by ch...

Psalms 107:34 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Many expositors are of opinion that this Psalm was written to celebrate the return of the Jews from the Babylonian exile. This opinion is based chiefly on Psalms 107:2-3 . But the Psal...

Psalms 107:34 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 107:33-34 . He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. Hearken unto this, ye...

Psalms 107:34 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This psalm begins the fifth and last book of the Hebrew psalter. It is divided into five parts or pauses, as it would seem, in the singing and the music. The character of the composition, though dive...

Psalms 107:34 - The Biblical Illustrator

He turneth rivers into a wilderness. God’s management of man upon the earth I. It involves great revolutions. 1. In the secular department ( Psalms 107:33-38 ). Sodom’s fertile soil was smit...

Psalms 107:34 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A SONG of thanksgiving, first for deliverance from the Babylonish captivity ( Psalms 107:1-19 ), and then for other deliverances ( Psalms 107:4-19 ), passing into a general account...

Psalms 107:34 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A further section describes the life of the tillers of the soil when they are deprived of the needed moisture in their fields, as well as when they receive an abundance of rain.

Psalms 107:34 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 29:23-28 ; Ezekiel 47:11 ; Genesis 13:10 ; Genesis 13:13 ; Genesis 14:3 ; Genesis 19:25 ; Isaiah 32:13-15

Psalms 107:34 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For — He doth not inflict these judgments without cause, but for the punishment of sin in some, and the prevention of it in others.