🎵WEB · Psalms 107:37
What does Psalms 107:37 mean?
"sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase."
— Psalms 107:37 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.
There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,
sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
Explanation
Psalm 107:37 describes people whom God has resettled in a once-desolate place, now productively at work: they sow their fields, plant vineyards, and gather an abundant harvest. In plain language, the verse pictures ordinary agricultural life — planting and reaping — as a sign of stability, provision, and blessing after a period of hardship or displacement.
This verse sits within a larger section of Psalm 107 (verses 33-38) that describes God's sovereign power to transform environments and circumstances. The psalm as a whole is a communal thanksgiving hymn, likely composed for use in Israel's worship, calling the redeemed to "give thanks to the Lord" for his rescue from various troubles — wandering in the wilderness, imprisonment, sickness, and danger at sea. The author is not named, but the psalm reflects the voice of the worshiping community, recounting God's faithfulness in delivering his people, quite possib
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