Psalms 107:4
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Psalms 107:4 in other translations
| BSB | Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell. |
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| WEB | They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in. |
| ASV | They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation. |
| YLT | They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found. |
| DARBY | They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way, they found no city of habitation; |
| BBE | They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place. |
| Webster | They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. |
What does Psalms 107:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 107:4-7
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 107:1-9
In these verses there is reference to the deliverance from Egypt, and perhaps that from Babylon: but the circumstances of travellers in those countries are also noted. It is scarcely possible to conceive the horrors suffered by the hapless traveller, when crossing the trackless sands, exposed to the burning rays of the sum. The words describe their case whom the Lord has redeemed from the bondage of Satan; who pass…
Psalms 107:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 107:4
- Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
- Ezekiel 34:6
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
- Ezekiel 34:12
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
- Numbers 14:33
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
- Genesis 21:14-16
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer–sheba. And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
- Hebrews 11:38
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
- Psalms 107:40
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
- Job 12:24
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
- Deuteronomy 8:15
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
- Revelation 12:6
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
- Numbers 32:13
And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
40; Ge 21:14-16; Nu 14:33; De 8:15; 32:10; Job 12:24; Eze 34:6,12
Heb 11:38; Re 12:6
they found.This is the first similitude; in which the Israelites in captivity are compared to travellers in a dreary, uninhabited, and barren desert, spent with hunger and thirst, as well as by the fatigues of the journey.
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Context
- Psalms 107:3
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
- Psalms 107:4
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
- Psalms 107:5
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Psalms 107:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Anduvieron perdidos por el desierto, por la soledad sin camino, no hallando ciudad de población. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ils errèrent par le désert, dans un chemin solitaire; ils ne trouvèrent pas de ville pour y habiter; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sie irrten umher in der Wüste, auf ödem Wege, sie fanden keine Wohnstadt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Confitebor tibi in populis, Domine, et psallam tibi in nationibus: |