Psalms 107:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

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  • Gen 14:3 : 3 All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.
  • Gen 19:24-25 : 24 Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. 25 And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.
  • Deut 29:23-28 : 23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath: 24 Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath? 25 Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt: 26 And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them: 27 And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book: 28 Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.
  • Isa 32:13-15 : 13 And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town. 14 For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks; 15 Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed into a wood.
  • Ezek 47:11 : 11 The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

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    11 The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

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    8 And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.

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