English Standard Version
Psalms 107:4
4Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;
Psalms 107:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
- New International Version (NIV)Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way; They found no city to dwell in.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Some wandered in the wilderness, lost and homeless.
Context of Psalms 107:4
2Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble 3and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in; 5hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them. 6Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.
Read all of Psalms 107Psalms 107:4 word by word
תָּע֣וּ בַ֭מִּדְבָּר בִּישִׁימ֣וֹן דָּ֑רֶךְ עִ֥יר מ֝וֹשָׁ֗ב לֹ֣א מָצָֽאוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 107:4
- Psalms 107:40he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;
- Genesis 21:14So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- Numbers 14:33And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.
- Deuteronomy 8:15who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,
- Deuteronomy 32:10"He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
- Job 12:24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a trackless waste.
- Ezekiel 34:6they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.
- Hebrews 11:38of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
- Revelation 12:6and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.
Commentaries on Psalms 107:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4They wandered in the wilderness - Here begins the Finest comparison: the Israelites in captivity are compared to a traveler in a dreary, uninhabited, and barren desert, spent with hunger and thirst, as well as by the fatigues of the journey, Psalm 107:5.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4They wandered in the wilderness - On their return from Babylon; or, when God was conducting them again to their own land. The word “wilderness” in the Scriptures means a desolate, barren, uninhabited region, usually destitute of trees, of springs, and of water-courses. It does not denote, as it does with us, a region of extensive “forests.” Compare the notes at Matthew 4:1. In a solitary way - Rather, in a “waste” way; a land that was desolate and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-9Those who were lost in the desert wastelands thank God for his rescue. The desert wastelands might be a metaphor for leaving the path of wisdom (Psalm 1:1; Proverbs 4:10–15).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-74-7. A graphic picture is given of the sufferings of those who from distant lands returned to Jerusalem; or, city of habitation--may mean the land of Palestine.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 107
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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