Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 107:33
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, the earth's productiveness being changed to sterility by His withholding the sources of fertility, and the water-springs into dry ground;
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, the earth's productiveness being changed to sterility by His withholding the sources of fertility, and the water-springs into dry ground;
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...
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. On the word “wilderness,” see the notes at Psa...
THE DEUTERONOMY SECTION: BOOK FIVE: PSALM 107-150 The final section of the book of Psalms, the fifth, is just like Deuteronomy. It shows God's ways with Israel, the end of these ways in deliverance n...
BOOK V. PSS. CVII.- CL. CVII. A Psalm of Thanksgiving for Yahweh's Special Goodness. It is divided at Psalms 107:8 f., Psalms 107:15 f., Psalms 107:21 f.,...
THE PSALMS BOOK THE FIFTH[474] [474] See Table II., _ante._ PSALMS 107 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Examples of Men's Straits, leading to Prayer; and of Jehovah's Deliverance, calling for Praise. ANALYSIS...
BOOK 5 This book, which seems originally to have been joined with Book 4, contains forty-four Pss., the vast majority of which are of late date. The contents of these Pss. are a surer guide to the per...
General instances of God's kindness in various districts. Some suggest that this is a later addition to the Ps. It has great likenesses to Job and Isaiah 40-66....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ INTRODUCTION Here are some of the things that you should know as you read the psalms in this book. 1. At the top of each psalm (say it "sarm") is a title in DARK...
The change in character and style of the psalm at this point is so marked as to suggest an addition by another hand. It is not only that the artistic form is dropped, and the series of vivid pictures,...
יָשֵׂ֣ם נְהָרֹ֣ות לְ מִדְבָּ֑ר וּ מֹצָ֥אֵי מ֝
Psalms 107:1 NOTWITHSTANDING the division of Books which separates Psalm evil from the two preceding, it is a pendant to these. The "gathering from among the heathen" prayed for in Psalms 106:41 has h...
THE “LOVING-KINDNESSES OF THE LORD” Psalms 107:33 The measure changes here. From Psalms 107:33 the psalmist drops the refrain and describes, not deliverance from peril or pain, but the sudden alterna...
WE now begin the fifth and last book of the Psalter. In this book the music is richest and fullest. It begins in this psalm on the fundamental notes, and rises through major and minor, by the way of t...
From the wonders of redeeming grace upon the mighty waters, the Psalmist makes a transition to the dry and barren land of the wilderness, whence he takes occasion to set forth another striking represe...
33._He turneth rivers into a wilderness _Here then is an account of changes which it would be the height of folly to attribute to chance. Fruitful lands become unfruitful, and barren lands assume the...
BOOK 5 - PSALMS 107-150 In the fifth Book the people are looked at as brought back, and a general survey of God's ways taken, with a kind of divine commentary on it all, ending, as all His ways surel...
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...
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; Ver. 33. _He turneth rivers into a wilderness_] Hitherto the psalmist hath set forth God's good providence in delivering men...
_He turneth rivers_ Land watered with rivers; _into a wilderness_ Into dry ground, as it follows, like a parched and barren wilderness, that has not moisture enough to produce any thing valuable; _a f...
33-43 What surprising changes are often made in the affairs of men! Let the present desolate state of Judea, and of other countries, explain this. If we look abroad in the world, we see many greatly...
RIVERS; either, 1. Properly so called; which he can divert or dry up when he pleaseth, as sometimes he hath done. Or rather, 2. Those grounds which are well watered, and therefore very fruitful, as t...
Psalms 107:33 turns H7760 (H8799) rivers H5104 wilderness H4057 watersprings H4325 H4161 ground H6774 turneth -...
Psalms 107:33. _He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein._ Hearken unto this, ye who a...
CONTENTS: God's wisdom, power and goodness celebrated. Man's deplorable forgetfulness of His mercies. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Those who have no special matter for praise may furnish t...
This psalm begins the fifth and last book of the Hebrew psalter. It is divided into five parts or pauses, as it would seem, in the singing and the music. The character of the composition, though diver...
_He turneth rivers into a wilderness._ GOD’S MANAGEMENT OF MAN UPON THE EARTH I. It involves great revolutions. 1. In the secular department (Psalms 107:33). Sodom’s fertile soil was smitten with b...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 107:1. With this psalm the members of the community call one another to give thanks for God’s enduring “steadfast love.” He has shown this to the people as a whole but also...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 107:33 God displayed his righteousness by restoring Judah after the exile. ⇐ ⇔
INTRODUCTION Many expositors are of opinion that this Psalm was written to celebrate the return of the Jews from the Babylonian exile. This opinion is based chiefly on Psalms 107:2. But the Psalm as a...
EXPOSITION A SONG of thanksgiving, first for deliverance from the Babylonish captivity (Psalms 107:1), and then for other deliverances (Psalms 107:4), passing into a general account of God's provident...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 107:1-43. The hundred and seventh psalm begins with an exhortation to us to Give thanks unto the LORD (Psalms 107:1), And the basis for the thanksgiving is His...
1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:5; Amos 4:7; Amos 4:8; Ezekiel 30:12;...
Rivers — Those grounds which are well watered, and therefore fruitful. And so the water — springs, here, and the standing water, Psalms 107:35 are taken. Into — Into a dry ground, which is like a parc...