Psalms Chapter 107 verse 33 Holy Bible
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, And watersprings into a thirsty ground;
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He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;
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He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;
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He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
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He turns rivers into a desert, Water springs into a thirsty ground,
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He maketh rivers become a wilderness, And fountains of waters become dry land.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 33-42. - Professor Cheyne finds in this passage - which he views as an "appendix" to the psalm - a falling off from the earlier portion of the psalm, and a set of "sentences strung together without much reflection." But to others the transition from special deliverances to God's general dealings with mankind seems an enlargement and an advance in the thought, although the language may be less graphic and more commonplace than in the former portion of the composition. Verse 33. - He turneth rivers into a wilderness. God can, and does, by the operation of his providence, turn lands naturally fertile - lands abounding with streams - into arid wastes, either by such a physical catastrophe as that which blasted the cities of the plain (Genesis 19:24, 25), or by such moral changes as have turned Babylonia from a garden into a desert, a miserable howling wilderness (comp. Isaiah 13:15-22; Isaiah 50:2; Jeremiah 50:13-15, 38-40; Jeremiah 51:13, 37-43, etc.). And the water springs into dry ground. The phrase is varied, but the meaning is the same. God has full control over nature, and can either take back his blessings, or render them of no avail.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(33) 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, each closed by a refrain, succeeded by changed aspects of thought, but the language becomes harsher, and the poet, if the same, suddenly proclaims that he has exhausted his imagination.
