Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 107:34
For — He doth not inflict these judgments without cause, but for the punishment of sin in some, and the prevention of it in others.
For — He doth not inflict these judgments without cause, but for the punishment of sin in some, and the prevention of it in others.
A FRUITFUL LAND - Hebrew, A land of fruit. That is, a land that would produce abundance. The word “fruit” here is not used in the limited sense in which we now employ it, but means any productions of...
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.,...
WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _ra'a'_. App-44....
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...
BARRENNESS] better, RV 'a salt desert'—perhaps thinking of Sodom: cp. Job 39:6....
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...
BARRENNESS. — Better, _a salt marsh,_ as in LXX. and Vulg. (See Job 39:6.)...
אֶ֣רֶץ פְּ֭רִי לִ מְלֵחָ֑ה מֵ֝ רָעַ֗ת יֹ֣שְׁב
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...
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...
A FRUITFUL LAND INTO BARRENNESS,.... Or, "into saltness" t; as Sodom and the land adjacent became a salt sea; and the land of Canaan was threatened to become brimstone, salt and burning, like Sodom; i...
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. Ver. 34. _A fruitful land into barrenness_] Heb. saltness. See Luk 14:34-35 Deu 29:23 Judges 9:45. Salt breedeth barren...
_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...
A further section describes the life of the tillers of the soil when they are deprived of the needed moisture in their fields, as well as when they receive an abundance of rain....
a fruitful land into barrenness, into alkali deserts, FOR THE WICKEDNESS OF THEM THAT DWELL THEREIN, punishing the inhabitants for their sins. There are many examples of this fact in many parts of the...
BARRENNESS: _ Heb._ saltiness...
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...
INTO BARRENNESS, Heb. _into saltness_, which procures barrenness. See DEUTERONOMY 29:23 JUDGES 9:45. FOR THE WICKEDNESS OF THEM THAT DWELL THEREIN; he doth not inflict these judgments by choice, or wi...
Psalms 107:34 fruitful H6529 land H776 barrenness H4420 wickedness H7451 dwell H3427 (H8802) a fruitful -...
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...
Deuteronomy 29:23; Ezekiel 47:11; Genesis 13:10; Genesis 13:13;...