Psalms 107:34

World English Bible

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Contextual Overview

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a fruitful: Genesis 13:10, Genesis 13:13, Genesis 19:25, Deuteronomy 29:23-28, Isaiah 32:13-15

barrenness: Heb. saltness, Genesis 14:3, Ezekiel 47:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:17 - bring Genesis 12:10 - was a Genesis 19:28 - General Exodus 10:7 - that Egypt Leviticus 26:20 - for your land Judges 9:45 - beat Ruth 1:1 - a famine 2 Kings 8:1 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 7:13 - If I shut up heaven Job 39:6 - barren land Psalms 68:6 - the rebellious Proverbs 14:34 - but Isaiah 1:7 - country Isaiah 42:15 - General Jeremiah 4:26 - the fruitful Jeremiah 5:25 - General Jeremiah 9:12 - for Jeremiah 12:4 - the herbs Jeremiah 22:6 - surely Jeremiah 23:10 - the pleasant Ezekiel 12:19 - because Ezekiel 32:15 - destitute of that whereof Hosea 9:6 - nettles Joel 1:6 - my Micah 3:12 - Zion Haggai 1:6 - have Hebrews 6:8 - beareth

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Gill's Notes on the 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; in which nothing was sown, and which bore no grass; see

Genesis 14:3 and so the Targum,

"the land of Israel, which brought forth fruit, he hath destroyed, as Sodom was overthrown.''

For the wickedness of them that dwell therein; this was the cause of the overthrow of Sodom, and of the destruction of that fine country, as also of Canaan afterwards; see Genesis 13:13. The very Heathens had a notion that barrenness and unfruitfulness in countries were owing to the sins of men; hence the sterility and famine at Mycenas were attributed to the wickedness of Atreus u. This may figuratively be understood of the present state and condition of the Jews; who were once a people well watered with the word and ordinances, and had the first preaching of the Gospel among them; but, rejecting and despising it, are now become like a desert, barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of divine things: and it might be illustrated by the case of several Christian churches; the seven churches of Asia, and others, once as well watered gardens, but now are no more; and the places where they stood are destitute of spiritual knowledge, and the means of it.

t למלחה "in salsuginem", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Vatablus, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Junius Tremellius "in salsam", Cocceius. u Hygin. Fab. 88.

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 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; Jeremiah 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.