John Trapp on Psalms 107:34

Verſ. 34. fruitful land into barrenneſs] Heb. Sal[illegible: 2 letters]eſs. See Luke 14.34, 35. Deut. 29.23. Jud. 9.45. Sals beendeth barrenneſs, by eating up the lat and moiſture of the earth. Some think the Pſalmiſt here alludeth to Sod[illegible: 1 letter]me and her ſiſters turned into the dead Sea.

For the wickedneſs of them that dwell therein] Hereof Judea is at this day a noble inſtance (beſides many parts of Aſia, and Africa, once very fruitful, now, ſince they became Mabemetan, dry and deſert) Judea, ſaith One, hath now onely ſome few parcels of rich ground found in it; that men may gueſs the goodneſs of the cloath by the fineneſs of the ſhreds. Greece which was once Sol & ſal gentium, ſaith Another, terrarum flos, fons lite rarum, nunc vel Priams miſerands manus—nunc in Graecia deſideremus Graeciam; 'tis nothing like the place it was once.