He turneth the wilderness into a standing water - A pool; a lake. See the notes at Isaiah 35:6.
And dry ground into water-springs - Not merely watering it with rain from heaven, but causing gushing fountains to break forth, and to flow continually, diffusing fertility and beauty everywhere.
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.,...
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) in verses: Psalms 107:35, emphasizing each item which goes to make up the fulness of blessing....
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...
Cp. Isaiah 41:18....
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...
STANDING WATER. — Or, _a pool of water._ (See Isaiah 35:7; Isaiah 41:18; Isaiah 42:15.) The dependence of this psalm on these passages in Isaiah is indubitable. But the images are employed in a differ...
יָשֵׂ֣ם מִ֭דְבָּר לַֽ אֲגַם ־מַ֑יִם וְ אֶ֥רֶץ
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...
He (q) turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. (q) For the love that he bears to his Church, he changes the order of nature for their convenience....
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...
35._He turneth the desert into a pool of water _This change, in contrast with the former, places the miraculous power of God in a more luminous position. Because, were the fields ceasing to be so prod...
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 THE WILDERNESS INTO A STANDING WATER,.... On the other hand, when it is the pleasure of God, a country uncultivated and like a desert, he makes it fruitful as one that is well watered and t...
He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. Ver. 35. _He turneth the wilderness, &c._] Some places, again, God (to show his power and providence) of sterile mak...
_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....
He turneth the wilderness, the bare and apparently Unfruitful desert, INTO A STANDING WATER, so that pools of water will be found there, AND DRY GROUND INTO WATER-SPRINGS....
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 A STANDING WATER; into a well-watered and fruitful land....
Psalms 107:35 turns H7760 (H8799) wilderness H4057 pools H98 water H4325 dry H6723 land H776 watersprings H4325...
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...
2 Kings 3:16; Ezekiel 47:6; Isaiah 35:6; Isaiah 35:7; Isaiah 41:17
Water — Into a well — watered and fruitful land....