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

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 i...

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

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

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

Barrenness ] better, RV 'a salt desert'—perhaps thinking of Sodom: cp. Job 39:6 .

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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

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

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...

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...

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 barrenness, Heb. into saltness , which procures barrenness. See Deuteronomy 29:23 Judges 9:45 . For the wickedness of them that dwell t...

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

a fruitful land into barrenness, into alkali deserts, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, punishing the inhabitants for their sins. Ther...

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

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.