Psalms 107:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:10 : 10 He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.
  • Num 14:33 : 33 And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.
  • Num 32:13 : 13 Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.
  • Deut 8:15 : 15 Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;
  • Gen 21:14-16 : 14 And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba. 15 And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree. 16 And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.
  • Job 12:24 : 24 He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.
  • Ps 107:40 : 40 He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.
  • Ezek 34:6 : 6 And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.
  • Ezek 34:12 : 12 As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.
  • Rev 12:6 : 6 And the woman went in flight to the waste land, where she has a place made ready by God, so that there they may give her food a thousand, two hundred and sixty days.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 107:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    5 Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

    6 Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles;

    7 Guiding them in the right way, so that they might come into the town of their resting-place.

  • Job 30:3-6
    4 verses
    78%

    3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

    4 They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

    5 They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

    6 They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

  • Jer 2:6
    74%

    6 And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

  • Ps 107:39-40
    2 verses
    74%

    39 And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,

    40 He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

  • Ps 107:33-36
    4 verses
    74%

    33 He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;

    34 He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

    35 He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

    36 And there he gives the poor a resting-place, so that they may make themselves a town;

  • Amos 8:12
    73%

    12 And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.

  • Ezek 34:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.

    6 And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.

  • Ps 107:3
    72%

    3 Making them come together out of all the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

  • Ps 105:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12 When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;

    13 When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.

  • Job 24:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

    5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

  • 1 Chr 16:20
    71%

    20 When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people;

  • Jer 51:43
    70%

    43 Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.

  • Jer 17:6
    70%

    6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

  • Jer 50:6
    70%

    6 My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.

  • Zech 7:14
    70%

    14 But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.

  • Ps 78:40
    70%

    40 How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

  • Ps 59:15
    70%

    15 Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

  • Ps 107:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27 They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

    28 Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.

  • Isa 64:10
    70%

    10 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.

  • Lam 4:15
    70%

    15 Away! unclean! they were crying out to them, Away! away! let there be no touching: when they went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.

  • Job 39:6
    70%

    6 They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

  • Ps 106:14
    70%

    14 They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

  • Hos 5:6
    70%

    6 They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.

  • Heb 11:37-38
    2 verses
    70%

    37 They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,

    38 Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.

  • Ps 107:13
    70%

    13 Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles.

  • Num 21:4
    69%

    4 Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.

  • Lam 4:19
    69%

    19 Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

  • Deut 32:10
    69%

    10 He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.

  • Job 6:18
    69%

    18 The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

  • Jer 9:2
    69%

    2 If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

  • Ps 107:19
    69%

    19 Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.

  • 2 Chr 15:4
    68%

    4 But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.

  • Ps 137:4
    68%

    4 How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?

  • Mic 7:13
    68%

    13 But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.

  • Isa 27:10
    68%

    10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

  • Job 24:7
    68%

    7 They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.