Parallel Verses
NET Bible
He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,
New American Standard Bible
And springs of water into a thirsty ground;
King James Version
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
Holman Bible
springs of water into thirsty ground,
International Standard Version
He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into dry ground,
A Conservative Version
He turns rivers into a wilderness, and water springs into a thirsty ground,
American Standard Version
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, And watersprings into a thirsty ground;
Amplified
He turns rivers into a wilderness,
And springs of water into a thirsty ground;
Bible in Basic English
He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;
Darby Translation
He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;
Julia Smith Translation
He will set rivers to a desert, and the findings of waters to thirst;
King James 2000
He turns rivers into a wilderness, and the water springs into dry ground;
Lexham Expanded Bible
He turns rivers into a wilderness and springs of water into thirsty ground,
Modern King James verseion
He sets rivers to a wilderness and water-springs to thirsty ground;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
which turneth floods into dry land, and drieth up the watersprings!
New Heart English Bible
He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,
The Emphasized Bible
He turneth Rivers into a desert, and, Springs of Water, into thirsty ground,
Webster
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the water-springs into dry ground;
World English Bible
He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,
Youngs Literal Translation
He maketh rivers become a wilderness, And fountains of waters become dry land.
Themes
Deserts » Illustrative of » Barrenness
Interlinear
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References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 107:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
Thanksgiving To Yahweh For His Of Deliverance
32 Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people! Let them praise him in the place where the leaders preside! 33 He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land, 34 and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
Cross References
Isaiah 42:15
I 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.
Isaiah 50:2
Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.
1 Kings 17:1-7
Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command."
1 Kings 18:5
Ahab told Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill some of the animals."
Psalm 74:15
You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.
Isaiah 13:19-21
Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms, the Chaldeans' source of honor and pride, will be destroyed by God just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.
Isaiah 19:5-10
The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.
Isaiah 34:9-10
Edom's streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.
Isaiah 44:27
who says to the deep sea, 'Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,'
Jeremiah 14:3
The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.
Ezekiel 30:12
I 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!
Joel 1:20
Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the grassy pastures.
Amos 4:7-8
"I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.
Nahum 1:4
He 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.
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as surely as I live," says the Lord who commands armies, the God of Israel, "be certain that Moab will become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah. They will be overrun by weeds, filled with salt pits, and permanently desolate. Those of my people who are left will plunder their belongings; those who are left in Judah will take possession of their land."
Zephaniah 2:13
The Lord will attack the north and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a heap of ruins; it will be as barren as the desert.