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Mazmur 107:33

Dibuat-Nya sungai-sungai menjadi padang gurun, dan pancaran-pancaran air menjadi tanah gersang,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Famine;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - God;   Government;   Poverty;   Righteousness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Deserts;   Fountains and Springs;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Poetry of the Hebrews;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Discontent;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Wandering;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Water;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Dry dried drieth;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ground;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alliteration and Kindred Figures;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dibuat-Nya sungai-sungai menjadi padang gurun, dan pancaran-pancaran air menjadi tanah gersang,
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa Ia juga yang menjadikan sungai itu akan gurun dan pancaran air akan tanah kering.

Contextual Overview

33 He turneth fluddes into a wildernes: and waterspringes into a drye grounde. 34 He [maketh] a fruitfull grounde barren: for the wickednes of them that dwell therein. 35 [Contrary] he reduceth a wyldernes into a standing water: and a drye ground into water springes. 36 And he setteth there the hungry: and they buylde them a citie to dwell in. 37 And they sowe their lande and plant vineyardes: and they yelde [vnto them] aboundant store of fruites. 38 He blesseth them, so that they multiplie exceedingly: and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease. 39 But [when they do fall from God,] they are diminished & brought low: through oppression, calamitie, & griefe of minde. 40 He bringeth princes into contempt: & he maketh them to wander in a wildernesse where there is no way at all. 41 Yet he exalteth the poore out of miserie: and geueth him housholdes equall to flockes of cattell. 42 The righteous will marke [this] and reioyce: and the mouth of all wickednesse shalbe stopped.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

turneth: 1 Kings 17:1-7, Isaiah 13:19-21, Isaiah 19:5-10, Isaiah 34:9, Isaiah 34:10, Isaiah 42:15, Isaiah 44:27, Isaiah 50:2, Ezekiel 30:12, Joel 1:20, Nahum 1:4, Zephaniah 2:9, Zephaniah 2:13

watersprings: 1 Kings 18:5, Jeremiah 14:3, Amos 4:7, Amos 4:8

Reciprocal: Judges 6:39 - dry 2 Kings 2:21 - there shall Isaiah 32:15 - the spirit Jeremiah 51:36 - and I will

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He turneth rivers into a wilderness,.... A country abounding with rivers, as the country round about Sodom and the land of Canaan were, Genesis 13:10. Such an one is sometimes, by the just judgment of God, turned into a desert.

And the water springs into dry ground: what was like a well watered garden becomes like dry and barren earth, on which nothing grows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He turneth rivers into a wilderness - He makes great changes in the earth; he shows that he has absolute dominion over it. See the notes at Isaiah 44:26-27. On the word “wilderness,” see the notes at Psalms 107:4. The point here is, that God had such control over nature that he could make the bed of a river dry and barren as the rocky or sandy desert. He could effectually dry up the stream, and make it so dry and parched that nothing would grow but the most stunted shrubs, such as were found in the waste and sandy desert.

And the water-springs into dry ground - The very fountains of the rivers: not only drying up the river itself by leading it off into burning wastes where it would be evaporated by the heat, or lost in the sand - but so directly affecting the “sources” of the streams as to make them dry.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 107:33. He turneth rivers into a wilderness — After having, as above, illustrated the state of the Jews in their captivity, and the deliverance which God wrought for them, he now turns to the general conduct of God in reference to the poor and needy; and his gracious interpositions in their behalf, the providential supply of their wants, and his opposition to their oppressors. On account of the wickedness of men, he sometimes changes a fruitful land into a desert. See the general state of Egypt in the present time: once a fertile land; now an arid, sandy wilderness. Again, by his blessing on honest industry, he has changed deserts into highly fertile ground. And, as for the wickedness of their inhabitants, many lands are cursed and rendered barren; so, when a people acknowledge him in all their ways, he blesses their toil, gives them rain and fruitful seasons, and fills their hearts with joy and gladness.


 
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