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Psalms 107:4
4Some wandered in a desert, a wasteland. They found no way to an inhabited city.
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 Adonai say so— whom He redeemed from the hand of the foe, 3whom He gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea. Some wandered in a desert, a wasteland. They found no way to an inhabited city. 5Hungry and thirsty, their souls ebbed away. 6So they cried out to Adonai in their distress, and He delivered them out of their troubles.
Read all of Psalms 107Psalms 107:4 word by word
תָּע֣וּ בַ֭מִּדְבָּר בִּישִׁימ֣וֹן דָּ֑רֶךְ עִ֥יר מ֝וֹשָׁ֗ב לֹ֣א מָצָֽאוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 107:4
- Psalms 107:40He pours contempt on princes, making them wander in trackless waste.
- Genesis 21:14So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. She went and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
- Numbers 14:33Your children will be herdsmen in the wilderness for 40 years. They will suffer because of your unfaithfulness until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.
- Deuteronomy 8:15He led you through the great and terrible wilderness—fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water. He brought forth water for you from the flinty rock.
- Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in the wilderness land, in the void of a howling waste. He surrounded him, cared for him, guarded him as the pupil of His eye.
- Job 12:24He deprives the heads of the people of earth of understanding, and causes them to wander in a pathless wasteland.
- Ezekiel 34:6My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Over all the face of the earth My sheep were scattered. No one searched. No one sought.”
- Hebrews 11:38The world was not worthy of them! They wandered around in deserts and mountains, caves and holes in the ground.
- Revelation 12:6Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God so they might take care of her 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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