Psalms 106:33
He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of water into dry ground:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Posuit flumina in desertum, et exitus aquarum in sitim ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔθετο ποταμοὺς εἰς ἔρημον, καὶ ἐξόδους ὑδάτων εἰς δίψαν,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 107:33
- יָשֵׂ֣ם נְהָר֣וֹת לְמִדְבָּ֑ר וּמֹצָ֥אֵי מַ֝֗יִם לְצִמָּאֽוֹן
Haydock's commentary
Wilderness. God caused his people to pass through the Red Sea, and the Jordan, to possess the fruitful country of Chanaan, part of which had been cursed for the crimes of the Sodomites. (Haydock)
He has punished Babylon, (Jeremias xxv. 12.) made a straight road for his people, (Isaias xxxv. 8.) and enabled them to cultivate their country again, ver. 41. (Calmet)
The synagogue has been abandoned, and the Church chosen. (Berthier)
The power of God is displayed, who caused the land of promise to be more fertile for his people, which is now very barren. (Worthington)
Where a note speaks of the Jewish people, the Church teaches that the Passion cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CVII
“He made the rivers a wilderness” ( ver. 33 ). Waters did run there, prophecies were in course. Seek now a prophet among the Jews; thou findest none. For “He made the outgoings of waters to be thirst.” Let them say, “Now there is no prophet more, and He will not know us any more.” “A fruitful land to be saltpools” ( ver. 34 ). Thou seekest there the faith of Christ, thou findest not: thou seekest a prophet, thou findest not: thou seekest a sacrifice, thou findest not: thou seekest a temple, thou findest none. Wherefore this? “From the wickedness of them that dwell therein.” Behold how He resisteth the proud: hear how He giveth grace to the humble. “He made the wilderness to be a standing water, and the dry ground to be outgoings of waters” ( ver. 35 ). “And He caused the hungry to dwell there” ( ver. 36 ). …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).