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Psalm 107

Psa. 107:33 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Hew turneth
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
rivers
nahar (Hebrew #5104)
a stream (including the sea; expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
KJV usage: flood, river.
Pronounce: naw-hawr'
Origin: from 5102
into a wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
, and the watersprings
mowtsa' (Hebrew #4161)
from 3318; a going forth, i.e. (the act) an egress, or (the place) an exit; hence, a source or product; specifically, dawn, the rising of the sun (the East), exportation, utterance, a gate, a fountain, a mine, a meadow (as producing grass)
KJV usage: brought out, bud, that which came out, east, going forth, goings out, that which (thing that) is gone out, outgoing, proceeded out, spring, vein, (water-)course (springs).
Pronounce: mo-tsaw'
Origin: or motsai {mo-tsaw'}
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
into dry ground
tsimma'own (Hebrew #6774)
a thirsty place, i.e. desert
KJV usage: drought, dry ground, thirsty land.
Pronounce: tsim-maw-one'
Origin: from 6771
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1 Kings 17:1,7• 1And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except by my word.
 7And it came to pass after a while that the torrent dried up, for there had been no rain in the land. (1 Kings 17:1,7)

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Ministry on This Verse

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turneth.
1 Kings 17:1‑7• 1And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except by my word.
 2And the word of Jehovah came to him saying,
 3Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the torrent Cherith, which is before the Jordan.
 4And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the torrent; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
 5And he went and did according to the word of Jehovah; he went and abode by the torrent Cherith, which is before the Jordan.
 6And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the torrent.
 7And it came to pass after a while that the torrent dried up, for there had been no rain in the land. (1 Kings 17:1‑7)
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Isa. 13:19‑21• 19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
 20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in, even to generation and generation; nor shall Arabian pitch tent there, nor shepherds make fold there.
 21But beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there. (Isa. 13:19‑21)
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Isa. 19:5‑10• 5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up;
 6and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away: the reeds and sedges shall wither.
 7The meadows by the Nile, on the banks of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile, shall be dried up, be driven away, and be no more.
 8And the fishers shall mourn, and all they that cast fish-hook into the Nile shall lament, and they that spread net upon the waters shall languish.
 9And they that work in fine flax, and they that weave white stuffs shall be ashamed.
 10And her pillars shall be broken in pieces, and all workers for hire shall be sad of soul. (Isa. 19:5‑10)
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Isa. 34:9‑10• 9And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch:
 10it shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. (Isa. 34:9‑10)
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Isa. 42:15• 15I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. (Isa. 42:15)
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Isa. 44:27• 27that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers; (Isa. 44:27)
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Isa. 50:2• 2Wherefore did I come, and there was no man? I called, and there was none to answer? Is my hand at all shortened that I cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst. (Isa. 50:2)
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Ezek. 30:12• 12And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I Jehovah have spoken it. (Ezek. 30:12)
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Joel 1:20• 20The beasts of the field also cry unto thee; for the water-courses are dried, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. (Joel 1:20)
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Nah. 1:4• 4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. (Nah. 1:4)
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Zeph. 2:9,13• 9Therefore, as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall certainly be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation; the remnant of my people shall spoil them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.
 13And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, a place of drought like the wilderness. (Zeph. 2:9,13)
water-springs.
1 Kings 18:5• 5and Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the fountains of water and to all the torrents, perhaps we may find grass to save the horses and the mules alive, so that we may not have to destroy some of our beasts. (1 Kings 18:5)
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Jer. 14:3• 3And their nobles send their little ones for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have covered their heads. (Jer. 14:3)
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Amos 4:7‑8• 7And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece of land was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
 8And two, three, cities wandered unto one city, to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:7‑8)
• The Lord, who had in His governmental dealings turned their land to drought because of their disobedience (Deut. 11:13-17), has now blessed it (vs. 33-38). (“Book 5.” by B. Anstey)
• Rivers are a wilderness, a fruitful land barren, through judgment. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 107-113” by J.N. Darby)
• (vv. 33-42) There are, moreover, the general governmental ways of God with the world. (“Psalms 107” by H. Smith)
• God may wither up the prosperity of a land, because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein (vv. 33-34). (“Psalms 107” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;