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Psalms 107:35

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

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יָשֵׂ֣םyasemputשׂוּםverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “put”, an unfinished actionH7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)[idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase]…מִ֭דְבָּרmidbardesertמִדְבָּרnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “desert”, the ordinary formH4057a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)desert, south, speech, wilderness.לַֽאֲגַםlaagamto pondאֲגַםpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, construct — “to pond”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH98a marsh; hence a rush (as growing in swamps); hence a stockade of reedspond, pool, standing (water).מַ֑יִםmayimwaterמַיִםnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “water”, the ordinary formH4325water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen[phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).וְאֶ֥רֶץveeretsand earthאֶרֶץconjunction, noun, common, both genders, singular, construct — “and earth”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH776the earth (at large, or partitively a land)[idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.צִ֝יָּ֗הtsiyahbarrenצִיָּהnoun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “barren”, the ordinary formH6723aridity; concretely, a desertbarren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.לְמֹצָ֥אֵיlemotsaeto eastמוֹצָאpreposition, noun, common, masculine, plural, construct — “to east”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH4161a going forth, i.e. (the act) an egress, or (the place) an exit; hence, a source or product; specifically, dawn, the rising of the sun (the East), exportation, utterance, a gate, a fountain, a mine, a meadow (as producing grass)brought out, bud, that which came out, east, going forth, goings out, that which (thing that) is gone out, outgoing, proceeded out, spring, vein, (water-) course (springs).מָֽיִםmayimwaterמַיִםnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “water”, the ordinary formH4325water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen[phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into watersprings.

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American Standard Version (1901)

He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, And a dry land into watersprings.

Young’s Literal Translation

He maketh a wilderness become a pool of water, And a dry land become fountains of waters.

World English Bible

He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

Darby Translation

He maketh the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs;

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into watersprings.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

He turns a wilderness into pools of water, and a dry land into streams of water.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἔθετο ἔρημον εἰς λίμνας ὑδάτων, καὶ γῆν ἄνυδρον εἰς διεξόδους ὑδάτων.