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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, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
 7And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because 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, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
 2And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,
 3Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
 4And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
 5So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
 6And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
 7And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because 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 Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
 20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
 21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs 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 they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
 7The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
 8The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
 9Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
 10And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. (Isa. 19:5‑10)
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Isa. 34:9‑10• 9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and 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 make 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, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth 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 waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it. (Ezek. 30:12)
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Joel 1:20• 20The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, 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 the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
 13And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. (Zeph. 2:9,13)
water-springs.
1 Kings 18:5• 5And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. (1 Kings 18:5)
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Jer. 14:3• 3And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. (Jer. 14:3)
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Amos 4:7‑8• 7And also I 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 was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
 8So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. (Amos 4:7‑8)
• 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)
• 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)

J. N. Darby Translation

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