Psalms 107:34

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶ֣רֶץ פְּ֭רִי לִמְלֵחָ֑ה מֵ֝רָעַ֗ת יֹ֣שְׁבֵי בָֽהּ

Transliteration

ʾereṣ pᵊrî to-mᵊlēḥâ from-rāʿat yōšᵊbê in-her

Grammar Details

• *ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular construct - land of
• *pᵊrî*: noun, masculine singular - fruit/fruitfulness
• *mᵊlēḥâ*: noun, feminine singular with prefixed preposition lamed - to saltiness/salt marsh
• *rāʿat*: noun, feminine singular construct with prefixed preposition min - from evil/wickedness of
• *yōšᵊbê*: qal participle, masculine plural construct - dwellers of/inhabitants of

Word Meanings

• *ʾereṣ*: land of/country of
• *pᵊrî*: fruit/fruitfulness/fertility
• *mᵊlēḥâ*: saltiness/salt marsh/barren land
• *rāʿat*: evil/wickedness/wrongdoing
• *yōšᵊbê*: dwellers of/inhabitants of/those who live in

Referenced Verses

• Gen 14:3 : 3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
• Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
• Gen 13:13 : 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
• Gen 19:24-25 : 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
• Deut 29:23-28 : 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
• Isa 32:13-15 : 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; 15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
• Ezek 47:11 : 11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.