Psalms 107:34
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.”
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“and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.”
King James Version · Public Domain“A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 107:34 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 4:12When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
- Genesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- Genesis 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
- Genesis 14:3The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
- Genesis 19:24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
- Deuteronomy 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- Psalms 68:7O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah
- Isaiah 32:13and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
- Jeremiah 5:25Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
- Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
- Ezekiel 12:19Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.
- Ezekiel 47:11But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
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