Psalms 136 · Verse 16

Psalms 136:16

To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 136:16, King James Version

Psalms 136:16 in other translations

BSBHe led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.
WEBto him who led his people through the wilderness, for his loving kindness endures forever;
ASVTo him that led his people through the wilderness; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever:
YLTTo Him leading His people in a wilderness, For to the age is His kindness.
DARBYTo him that led his people through the wilderness, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever;
BBETo him who took his people through the waste land: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
WebsterTo him who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.

What does Psalms 136:16 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 Which led his people through the wilderness - It was an astonishing miracle of God to support so many hundreds of thousands of people in a wilderness totally deprived of all necessaries for the life of man, and that for the space of forty years.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 136:10-22

The great things God did for Israel, when he brought them out of Egypt, were mercies which endured long to them; and our redemption by Christ, which was typified thereby, endures for ever. It is good to enter into the history of God's favours, and in each to observe, and own, that his mercy endureth for ever. He put them in possession of a good land; it was a figure of the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Psalms 136:16 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לְמוֹלִ֣יךְle.mo.Likhto [one who] ledH1980
עַ֭מּוֹa.mo<of> people hisH5971
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רba.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057
כִּ֖יkiforH3588
לְעוֹלָ֣םle.'o.Lam[is] for everH5769
חַסְדּֽוֹ\׃chas.Docovenant loyalty hisH2617

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 136:16

  • 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;

  • Exodus 15:22

    So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

  • Exodus 13:18

    But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

  • Deuteronomy 8:2

    And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

  • Psalms 77:20

    Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

  • Isaiah 63:11-14

    Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him? That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble? As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

  • Nehemiah 9:19

    Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

  • Numbers 9:17-22

    And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents. At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not. And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed. …

  • Isaiah 49:10

    They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

  • Nehemiah 9:12

    Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
77:20; Ex 13:18; 15:22; Nu 9:17-22; De 8:2,15; Ne 9:12,19
Isa 49:10; 63:11-14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 136:15

    But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.

  • Psalms 136:16

    To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.

  • Psalms 136:17

    To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:

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Psalms 136:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Al que pastoreó á su pueblo por el desierto, porque para siempre es su misericordia.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Qui a conduit son peuple par le désert, car sa bonté demeure à toujours;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Den, der sein Volk durch die Wüste führte, denn seine Güte währt ewiglich;