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Psalms 107:34

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

KJV

A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

ASV

אֶ֣רֶץ פְּ֭רִי לִ/מְלֵחָ֑ה מֵ֝/רָעַ֗ת יֹ֣שְׁבֵי בָֽ/הּ

Hebrew

A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

YLT

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י
yshby
verb · 1088×
מְלֵחָ֖ה
mlchh
noun · 3×
פְּרִ֣י
pry
noun · 118×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 29:23 — And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, whic
  • Ezek 47:11 — But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
  • Gen 6:17 — And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
  • Gen 13:10 — And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egy
  • Gen 14:3 — All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
  • Gen 19:25 — And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
  • Gen 19:28 — And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
  • Hag 1:6 — Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to pu
  • Jer 4:26 — I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
  • Jer 5:25 — Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
  • Jer 9:12 — Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that non
  • Jer 12:4 — How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last
  • Jer 22:6 — For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
  • Jer 23:10 — For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
  • Job 39:6 — Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
  • Mic 3:12 — Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
  • Prov 14:34 — Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.