Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 107 connects to 10 cross-references. A communal thanksgiving psalm cataloguing four types of people redeemed by God: wanderers in the desert, prisoners in darkness, the sick near death, and storm-tossed sailors. Each story follows the pattern of trouble, crying out, divine rescue, and commanded thanksgiving. …
Other Translations
A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.
He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
Cross References
And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast …
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor …
Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful …
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in …
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew …
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, …