Psalms 107:4

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They wandered in the wilderness, in a desolate place; they found no way to a city where they could settle.

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  • Deut 32:10 : 10 He found him in a desolate land, in a barren wasteland with howling winds. He surrounded him, cared for him, and protected him as the apple of His eye.
  • Num 14:33 : 33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, bearing the consequences of your unfaithfulness, until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.
  • Num 32:13 : 13 The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness for forty years until the entire generation that had done evil in His sight was gone.
  • Deut 8:15 : 15 He led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, filled with venomous snakes, scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water. He brought water for you out of a rock of flint.
  • Gen 21:14-16 : 14 Early in the morning, Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulder, along with the boy, and sent her away. She departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15 When the water in the skin was gone, she placed the boy under one of the bushes. 16 Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said to herself, 'I cannot watch the boy die.' And as she sat there, she began to weep loudly.
  • Job 12:24 : 24 He removes the understanding of the leaders of the earth's people and makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.
  • Ps 107:40 : 40 He pours out contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
  • Ezek 34:6 : 6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My flock was scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.
  • Ezek 34:12 : 12 As a shepherd looks after his scattered sheep when he is with them, so I will look after My flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts, and on mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.
  • Rev 12:6 : 6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God to be taken care of for 1,260 days.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 107:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    5Hungry and thirsty, their souls grew faint within them.

    6Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

    7He led them on a straight path to a city where they could settle.

  • Job 30:3-6
    4 verses
    78%

    3They are gaunt from poverty and hunger; they gnaw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.

    4They pluck salt herbs from the bush, and the roots of broom trees are their food.

    5They are driven out from among society, and people shout at them as if they were thieves.

    6They dwell in the dry streambeds, in holes in the ground, and among the rocks.

  • Jer 2:6
    74%

    6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and deep darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

  • Ps 107:39-40
    2 verses
    74%

    39Yet they were diminished and brought low through oppression, calamity, and sorrow.

    40He pours out contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

  • Ps 107:33-36
    4 verses
    74%

    33He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into parched ground,

    34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.

    35He turns the desert into pools of water, and a dry land into flowing springs.

    36There He settles the hungry, and they establish a city to live in.

  • Amos 8:12
    73%

    12They will wander from sea to sea and from north to east; they will roam about seeking the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.

  • Ezek 34:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild animals; they were scattered.

    6My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My flock was scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.

  • Ps 107:3
    72%

    3He gathered them from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

  • Ps 105:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12When they were few in number, very few, and strangers in the land.

    13They wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

  • Job 24:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4They turn the needy off the path, and the poor of the land are forced to hide together.

    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out for their work diligently seeking prey; the steppe provides food for their children.

  • 1 Chr 16:20
    71%

    20they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

  • Jer 51:43
    70%

    43Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and barren land where no one lives, and through which no man passes.

  • Jer 17:6
    70%

    6They will be like a shrub in the desert, dwelling in a parched place in the wilderness, in a land of salt where no one lives, and will not see when prosperity comes.

  • Jer 50:6
    70%

    6My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to wander on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill and forgotten their resting place.

  • Zech 7:14
    70%

    14'I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. The land was left so desolate behind them that no one could come or go. This is how they made the pleasant land a wasteland.'

  • Ps 78:40
    70%

    40How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the wasteland!

  • Ps 59:15
    70%

    15They return at evening, snarling like dogs as they prowl the city.

  • Ps 107:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.

    28Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.

  • Isa 64:10
    70%

    10Our holy and glorious house, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.

  • Lam 4:15
    70%

    15“Go away! You are unclean!” people shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” When they fled and wandered, the nations said, “They can stay here no longer.”

  • Job 39:6
    70%

    6I made the wilderness its home and the barren land its dwelling place.

  • Ps 106:14
    70%

    14In the wilderness, they craved intensely and tested God in the wasteland.

  • Hos 5:6
    70%

    6With their flocks and herds they will go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

  • Heb 11:37-38
    2 verses
    70%

    37They were stoned, they were sawed in two, and they were killed with the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted, and mistreated.

    38The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts, and on mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.

  • Ps 107:13
    70%

    13Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

  • Num 21:4
    69%

    4They journeyed from Mount Hor by way of the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom, and the people became impatient along the way.

  • Lam 4:19
    69%

    19Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the sky; they chased us over the mountains and lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Deut 32:10
    69%

    10He found him in a desolate land, in a barren wasteland with howling winds. He surrounded him, cared for him, and protected him as the apple of His eye.

  • Job 6:18
    69%

    18Caravans turn aside from their paths; they go into the wasteland and perish.

  • Jer 9:2
    69%

    2They bend their tongues like a bow to shoot lies, not for truth do they grow strong in the land; they go from one evil to another, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

  • Ps 107:19
    69%

    19Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

  • 2 Chr 15:4
    68%

    4But in their trouble, they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, sought Him, and He was found by them.

  • Ps 137:4
    68%

    4How can we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land?

  • Mic 7:13
    68%

    13The land will become desolate because of its inhabitants, due to the fruit of their deeds.

  • Isa 27:10
    68%

    10The fortified city is desolate, a desert place, abandoned and forsaken like the wilderness. There, calves will graze, lie down, and strip its branches bare.

  • Job 24:7
    68%

    7They spend the night naked without clothing, having no covering in the cold.