Psalms 107:34

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and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 14:3 : 3 These last five kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim(that is, the Salt Sea).
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered(before the LORD obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 (Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the LORD.)
  • Gen 19:24-25 : 24 Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the LORD. 25 So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.
  • Deut 29:23-28 : 23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger. 24 Then all the nations will ask,“Why has the LORD done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?” 25 Then people will say,“Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. 27 That is why the LORD’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll. 28 So the LORD has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”
  • Isa 32:13-15 : 13 Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry. 14 For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded city is abandoned. Hill and watchtower are permanently uninhabited. Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there. 15 This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the wilderness will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest.
  • Ezek 47:11 : 11 But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.

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    33He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

  • Ps 107:35-37
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    35As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

    36He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live.

    37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

  • Mic 7:13
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    13The earth will become desolate because of what its inhabitants have done.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

  • Jer 23:10
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    10For the land is full of people unfaithful to him. They live wicked lives and they misuse their power. So the land is dried up because it is under his curse. The pastures in the wilderness are withered.

  • Ezek 36:34
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    34The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

  • Amos 5:7
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    7The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

  • Isa 24:6
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    6So a treaty curse devours the earth; its inhabitants pay for their guilt. This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, and are reduced to just a handful of people.

  • Jer 44:22
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    22Finally the LORD could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.

  • Jer 12:4
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    4How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast,“God will not see what happens to us.”

  • Ps 107:40
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    40He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

  • Deut 29:23
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    23The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.

  • Ezek 47:11
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    11But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.

  • Jer 2:7
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    7I brought you into a fertile land so you could enjoy its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; you made the land I call my own loathsome to me.

  • Ezek 30:12
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    12I will dry up the waterways and hand the land over to evil men. I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners. I, the LORD, have spoken!

  • Job 24:18-19
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    18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

    19The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner.

  • Jer 50:38
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    38A drought will come upon her land; her rivers and canals will be dried up. All of this will happen because her land is filled with idols. Her people act like madmen because of those idols they fear.

  • Jer 25:37
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    37Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste by the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

  • Ezek 15:8
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    8I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

  • Hos 4:3
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    3Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.

  • Isa 34:9
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    9Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

  • Prov 3:33
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    33The LORD’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they have refused to do what is right.

  • Lev 26:32
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    32I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

  • Lev 26:20
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    20Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

  • Prov 2:22
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    22but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

  • Nah 1:4
    72%

    4He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers.

  • Jer 4:26
    72%

    26I looked and saw that the fruitful land had become a desert and that all of the cities had been laid in ruins. The LORD had brought this all about because of his blazing anger.

  • Jer 18:16
    72%

    16So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.

  • Jer 12:11
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    11They will lay it waste. It will lie parched and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste. But no one living in it will pay any heed.

  • Deut 11:17
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    17Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.

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    72%

    7For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

  • Lev 18:25
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    25Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

  • Deut 32:32
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    32For their vine is from the stock of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes contain venom, their clusters of grapes are bitter.

  • Ps 105:35
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    35They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields.

  • Zeph 1:13
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  • Job 12:15
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    15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • Jer 17:3
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    3and on the mountains and in the fields. I will give your wealth and all your treasures away as plunder. I will give it away as the price for the sins you have committed throughout your land.

  • Job 24:6
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    6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Deut 29:27
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    27That is why the LORD’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll.

  • Ps 107:4
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    4They wandered through the wilderness, in a wasteland; they found no road to a city in which to live.

  • Deut 28:18
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    18Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

  • Ps 37:22
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    22Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

  • Isa 57:20
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    20But the wicked are like a surging sea that is unable to be quiet; its waves toss up mud and sand.

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    15I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.