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Selected Verse: Psalms 107:34 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 107:34 |
Strong Concordance |
A fruitful [06529] land [0776] into barrenness [04420], for the wickedness [07451] of them that dwell [03427] therein. |
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King James |
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 productions of the earth.
Into barrenness - Margin, as in Hebrew, "saltness." The word is used to denote a barren soil, because where salt "abounds" the soil "is" barren. Thus it is around the Dead Sea. Compare Job 39:6; Jer 17:6. See also Virg. Geor. II. 238, "Salsa ... tellus - frugibus infelix;" Pliny, Hist. Nat. 31. 7; Bochart, Hieroz. t. i., p. 872.
For the wickedness of them that dwell therein - As he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah; probably alluding to that. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| For - He doth not inflict these judgments without cause, but for the punishment of sin in some, and the prevention of it in others. |
6 For he shall be like the heath [06199] in the desert [06160], and shall not see [07200] when good [02896] cometh [0935]; but shall inhabit [07931] the parched places [02788] in the wilderness [04057], in a salt [04420] land [0776] and not inhabited [03427].
6 Whose house [01004] I have made [07760] the wilderness [06160], and the barren [04420] land his dwellings [04908].