New American Standard Bible 1995
Psalms 107:4
4They 1wandered in the wilderness in a 2desert region; They did not find a way to 3an inhabited 4city.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;
- New King James Version (NKJV)They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way; They found no city to dwell in.
Context of Psalms 107:4
2Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary 3And gathered from the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south. They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region; They did not find a way to an inhabited city. 5They were hungry and thirsty; Their soul fainted within them. 6Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble; He delivered them out of their distresses.
Read all of Psalms 107Psalms 107:4 word by word
תָּע֣וּ בַ֭מִּדְבָּר בִּישִׁימ֣וֹן דָּ֑רֶךְ עִ֥יר מ֝וֹשָׁ֗ב לֹ֣א מָצָֽאוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 107:4
- Psalms 107:40He pours contempt upon princes And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
- Genesis 21:14So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- Numbers 14:33Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.
- Deuteronomy 8:15He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.
- Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.
- Job 12:24He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s people And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
- Ezekiel 34:6My flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill; My flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth, and there was no one to search or seek for them.”’”
- Hebrews 11:38(men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.
- Revelation 12:6Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty 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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