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34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
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And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: …
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-43)The psalmist, having given God the glory of the providential reliefs granted to persons in distress, here gives him the glory of the revolutions of providence, and the surprising changes it sometimes makes in the affairs of the children of men. I. He gives some instances of these revolutions. 1. Fruitful countries are made barren and barren countries are made fruitful. Much of the comfort of this…
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