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Psalm 107

Psa. 107:33 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Hew turneth
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
rivers
nahar (Hebrew #5104)
a stream (including the sea; expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
KJV usage: flood, river.
Pronounce: naw-hawr'
Origin: from 5102
into a wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
, and the watersprings
mowtsa' (Hebrew #4161)
from 3318; a going forth, i.e. (the act) an egress, or (the place) an exit; hence, a source or product; specifically, dawn, the rising of the sun (the East), exportation, utterance, a gate, a fountain, a mine, a meadow (as producing grass)
KJV usage: brought out, bud, that which came out, east, going forth, goings out, that which (thing that) is gone out, outgoing, proceeded out, spring, vein, (water-)course (springs).
Pronounce: mo-tsaw'
Origin: or motsai {mo-tsaw'}
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
into dry ground
tsimma'own (Hebrew #6774)
a thirsty place, i.e. desert
KJV usage: drought, dry ground, thirsty land.
Pronounce: tsim-maw-one'
Origin: from 6771
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1 Kings 17:1,7• 1And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
 7And it came to pass after a while that the torrent dried up, for there had been no rain in the land. (1 Kings 17:1,7)

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Ministry on This Verse

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1 Kings 17:1‑7• 1And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
 2And the word of Jehovah came to him saying,
 3Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the torrent Cherith, which is before the Jordan.
 4And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the torrent; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
 5So he went and did according unto the word of Jehovah, for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
 6And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening. and he drank of the torrent.
 7And it came to pass after a while that the torrent dried up, for there had been no rain in the land. (1 Kings 17:1‑7)
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Isa. 13:19‑21• 19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldean's pride, shall be as God's overthrowing Sodom and Gomorrha.
 20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in to generation and generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, nor shall shepherds make [their flocks] to lie down there.
 21But beasts of the desert there shall lie down; and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. (Isa. 13:19‑21)
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Isa. 19:5‑10• 5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
 6And the rivers shall stink; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and the flags shall wither.
 7The meadows by the Nile, by the banks of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile, shall be dried up, be driven away, and be no [more].
 8And the fishers shall mourn, and all they that cast hook into the Nile shall lament, and they that cast nets upon the waters shall languish.
 9And they that work in fine flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.
 10And her pillars shall be broken in pieces, all workers for hire shall be sad of soul. (Isa. 19:5‑10)
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Isa. 34:9‑10• 9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
 10It shall not be quenched night and day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever. (Isa. 34:9‑10)
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Isa. 42:15• 15I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools. (Isa. 42:15)
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Isa. 44:27• 27that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers; (Isa. 44:27)
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Isa. 50:2• 2Wherefore did I come, and there was no man? I called, and there was none to answer? Is my hand at all shortened, that I cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because [there is] no water, and die for thirst. (Isa. 50:2)
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Ezek. 30:12• 12And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I Jehovah have spoken it. (Ezek. 30:12)
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Joel 1:20• 20The beasts of the field also cry unto thee; for the water-courses are dried, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. (Joel 1:20)
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Nah. 1:4• 4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. (Nah. 1:4)
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Zeph. 2:9,13• 9Therefore as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
 13And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. (Zeph. 2:9,13)
water-springs.
1 Kings 18:5• 5and Ahab said to Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks, perhaps we may find grass to save the horses and the mules alive, so that we may not have to destroy some of our beasts. (1 Kings 18:5)
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Jer. 14:3• 3And their nobles send their little ones for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have covered their heads. (Jer. 14:3)
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Amos 4:7‑8• 7And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
 8So two or three cities wandered into one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:7‑8)
• Rivers are a wilderness, a fruitful land barren, through judgment. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 107-113” by J.N. Darby)
• (vv. 33-42) There are, moreover, the general governmental ways of God with the world. (“Psalm 107” by H. Smith)
• God may wither up the prosperity of a land, because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein (vv. 33-34). (“Psalm 107” by H. Smith)
• The Lord, who had in His governmental dealings turned their land to drought because of their disobedience (Deut. 11:13-17), has now blessed it (vs. 33-38). (“Book 5.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;

W. Kelly Translation

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He turneth rivers to a wilderness,{HR}And water-springs to a thirsty ground,