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Psalm 107:32-34
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 107:32-34
New Catholic Bible
32 Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people
and praise him in the council of the elders.[a]
33 [b]He turns rivers into wasteland,
springs of water into parched ground,[c]
34 and fertile land into a salt waste,
because of the wickedness of those who live there.[d]
Footnotes
- Psalm 107:32 The merchants are urged to render worship to God by declaring, both in communal worship and in places of leadership, what he has done for them.
- Psalm 107:33 The psalmist evokes God’s deliverance of his people by a “reversal of fortune.”
- Psalm 107:33 Imagery like that found in Isa 35:6f; 41:18; 42:15; 43:19f; 50:2.
- 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).
