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Psalm 107:34-36
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 107:34-36
New Catholic Bible
34 and fertile land into a salt waste,
because of the wickedness of those who live there.[a]
35 He turns the wasteland into pools of water
and the parched ground into bubbling springs.
36 [b]There he provides the hungry with a home,
and they build a city where they can settle.
Footnotes
- Psalm 107:34 Allusion to Sodom and Gomorrah (see Gen 13:10; 19; Deut 29:22; Sir 39:23). Salt was cast on cities that had been destroyed (see Jdg 9:45).
- Psalm 107:36 These verses are written in general terms; however, scholars believe the psalmist is most likely referring here to the settlement and development of the Promised Land (vv. 36ff), the hardships during the Assyrian and Babylonian invasions (v. 39), the humiliation and exile of the last kings of Judah (v. 40), and the restoration of Zion after the Exile (v. 41).
