Psalms 107:33

"He that turneth rivers into a wilderness,

And watersprings into a thirsty ground;

A fruitful land into a salt desert,

For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water,

And a dry land into water springs.

And there he maketh the hungry to dwell,

That they may prepare a city of habitation,

And sow fields, and plant vineyards,

And get them fruits of increase.

He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly;

And he suffereth not their cattle to decrease."

"Rivers into a wilderness ... springs into a thirsty ground for their wickedness" (Psalms 107:33-34). "Some of these verses have historical allusions that refer back to earlier verses in the psalm; so that the entire psalm is a unity, composed by one author."[19]

Dahood applied the first two verses here to the Canaanites who were displaced by Israel's settlement in Canaan, because of the sinfulness of the Canaanites. "This is a metaphor of Israel's exchanging the desert (wilderness) for the land flowing with milk and honey."[20]

"There he maketh the hungry to dwell" (Psalms 107:36). "The hungry here are the Israelites, that same word being applied to them also in Psalms 107:5,9, pointing to the unity of authorship."[21]

This whole paragraph praises God for his blessing of Israel in the Promised Land.