Psalms 107:35 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water - A pool; a lake. See the notes at Isaiah 35:6-7 . And dry ground into water-springs - Not m...

Arno Geneva Study Bible

He (q) turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. (q) For the love that he bears to his Church, he changes the...

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., Psa...

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

And. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6) in verses: Psalms 107:35-38 , emphasizing each item which goes to make up the fulness of ble...

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

35. He turneth the desert into a pool of water This change, in contrast with the former, places the miraculous power of God in a more lumino...

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. T...

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Cp. Isaiah 41:18 .

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Standing water. — Or, a pool of water. (See Isaiah 35:7 ; Isaiah 41:18-19 ; Isaiah 42:15 .) The dependence of this psalm on these passages in...

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...

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 describe...

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,...

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 t...

John 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, h...

John Trapp Complete Commentary

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. Ver. 35. He turneth the wilderness, &c. ] Some places, agai...

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...

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Wonders of Divine Providence.       33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness,...

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Into a standing water; into a well-watered and fruitful land.

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...

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 o...

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 mu...

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 (...

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 (...

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 r...

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

He turneth the wilderness, the bare and apparently Unfruitful desert, into a standing water, so that pools of water will be found there, and dry g...

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 3:16-20 ; Ezekiel 47:6-12 ; Isaiah 35:6 ; Isaiah 35:7 ; Isaiah 41:17-19 ; Isaiah 44:3-5 ; Numbers 21:16-18 ; Psalms 114:8