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Psalms 106:37

And they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded fruit of birth.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): et seminaverunt agros et plantaverunt vineas, et fecerunt fructum nativitatis.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ ἔσπειραν ἀγροὺς καὶ ἐφύτευσαν ἀμπελῶνας, καὶ ἐποίησαν καρπὸν γενήματος.
Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 107:37: וַיִּזְרְע֣וּ שָׂ֭דוֹת וַיִּטְּע֣וּ כְרָמִ֑ים וַ֝יַּעֲשׂ֗וּ פְּרִ֣י תְבֽוּאָה

Haydock's commentary

Of birth. A plentiful crop, facient fruges germina. (St. Jerome) (Calmet)

Abundance of fruit shall grow in some places, while others are punished on account of sin. (Worthington)

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).