Parallel Verses
Amplified
He turns rivers into a wilderness,
And springs of water into a thirsty ground;
New American Standard Bible
And springs of water into a thirsty ground;
King James Version
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
Holman Bible
springs of water into thirsty ground,
International Standard Version
He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into dry ground,
A Conservative Version
He turns rivers into a wilderness, and water springs into a thirsty ground,
American Standard Version
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, And watersprings into a thirsty ground;
Bible in Basic English
He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;
Darby Translation
He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;
Julia Smith Translation
He will set rivers to a desert, and the findings of waters to thirst;
King James 2000
He turns rivers into a wilderness, and the water springs into dry ground;
Lexham Expanded Bible
He turns rivers into a wilderness and springs of water into thirsty ground,
Modern King James verseion
He sets rivers to a wilderness and water-springs to thirsty ground;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
which turneth floods into dry land, and drieth up the watersprings!
NET Bible
He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,
New Heart English Bible
He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,
The Emphasized Bible
He turneth Rivers into a desert, and, Springs of Water, into thirsty ground,
Webster
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the water-springs into dry ground;
World English Bible
He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,
Youngs Literal Translation
He maketh rivers become a wilderness, And fountains of waters become dry land.
Themes
Deserts » Illustrative of » Barrenness
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 107:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
Thanksgiving To Yahweh For His Of Deliverance
32
Let them exalt Him also in the congregation of the people,
And praise Him at the seat of the elders.
He turns rivers into a wilderness,
And springs of water into a thirsty ground;
A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Cross References
Isaiah 42:15
“I will lay waste the mountains and hills
And wither all their vegetation;
I will turn the rivers into coastlands
And dry up the ponds.
Isaiah 50:2
“Why, when I came, was there no man [to greet Me]?
When I called, why was there no one to answer?
Is My hand really so short that it cannot redeem [My servants]?
Or have I no power to rescue?
Listen carefully, with My rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers into a desert;
Their fish stink because there is no water
And die of thirst.
1 Kings 17:1-7
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
1 Kings 18:5
Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go into the land to all the sources of water and to all the streams; perhaps we may find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, and not have to kill some of the cattle.”
Psalm 74:15
You broke open fountains and streams;
You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
Isaiah 13:19-21
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
Isaiah 19:5-10
The waters from the sea will dry up,
And the river will be parched and dry.
Isaiah 34:9-10
The streams [of Edom] will be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.
Isaiah 44:27
“It is I who says to the deep, ‘Be dried up!’
And I will make your rivers dry.
Jeremiah 14:3
“Their nobles have sent their servants for water;
They have come to the cisterns and found no water.
They have returned with empty vessels;
They have been shamed and humiliated,
And they cover their heads.
Ezekiel 30:12
“And I will make the rivers [of the Nile delta] dry
And sell the land into the hands of evil men;
I will make the land desolate
And all that is in it,
By the hand of strangers. I the Lord have spoken.”
Joel 1:20
Even the wild animals pant [in longing] for You;
For the water brooks are dried up
And fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness.
Amos 4:7-8
“Furthermore, I withheld the rain from you
When there were still three months until the harvest.
Then I would send rain on one city,
And on another city I would not send rain;
One piece of ground was rained on,
While the part not rained on would dry up.
Nahum 1:4
He rebukes the sea and dries it up;
He dries up all the rivers [illustrating His judgment].
Bashan [on the east] and [Mount] Carmel [on the west] wither,
And [in the north] the blossoms of Lebanon fade.
Zephaniah 2:9
“Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel,
“
And the
A land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
And a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of My people will plunder them
And what is left of My nation will inherit them [as their own].”
Zephaniah 2:13
And the Lord will stretch out His hand against the north
And destroy Assyria,
And He will make Nineveh a desolation [a wasteland],
Parched as the desert.