Psalms 107:4

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They wandered through the wilderness, in a wasteland; they found no road to a city in which to live.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:10 : 10 The LORD found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.
  • Num 14:33 : 33 and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.
  • Num 32:13 : 13 So the LORD’s anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the LORD was finished.
  • Deut 8:15 : 15 and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and
  • Gen 21:14-16 : 14 Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba. 15 When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs. 16 Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot, away; for she thought,“I refuse to watch the child die.” So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.
  • Job 12:24 : 24 He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.
  • Ps 107:40 : 40 He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.
  • Ezek 34:6 : 6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.
  • Ezek 34:12 : 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 (the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.
  • Rev 12:6 : 6 and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 107:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    5They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.

    6They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

    7He led them on a level road, that they might find a city in which to live.

  • Job 30:3-6
    4 verses
    78%

    3gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.

    4By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.

    5They were banished from the community– people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves–

    6so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

  • Jer 2:6
    74%

    6They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’

  • Ps 107:39-40
    2 verses
    74%

    39As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.

    40He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

  • Ps 107:33-36
    4 verses
    74%

    33He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

    34and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

    35As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

    36He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live.

  • Amos 8:12
    73%

    12People will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north around to the east. They will wander about looking for a message from the LORD, but they will not find any.

  • Ezek 34:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast.

    6My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

  • Ps 107:3
    72%

    3and gathered from foreign lands, from east and west, from north and south.

  • Ps 105:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident foreigners within it,

    13they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another.

  • Job 24:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

  • 1 Chr 16:20
    71%

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

  • Jer 51:43
    70%

    43The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them.

  • Jer 17:6
    70%

    6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

  • Jer 50:6
    70%

    6“My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have allowed them to go astray. They have wandered around in the mountains. They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another. They have forgotten their resting place.

  • Zech 7:14
    70%

    14‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”

  • Ps 78:40
    70%

    40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!

  • Ps 59:15
    70%

    15They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

  • Ps 107:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.

    28They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • Isa 64:10
    70%

    10Your chosen cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem, a desolate ruin.

  • Lam 4:15
    70%

    15ס(Samek) People cry to them,“Turn away! You are unclean! Turn away! Turn away! Don’t touch us!” So they have fled and wander about; but the nations say,“They may not stay here any longer.”

  • Job 39:6
    70%

    6to whom I appointed the arid rift valley for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?

  • Ps 106:14
    70%

    14In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.

  • Hos 5:6
    70%

    6The Futility of Sacrificial Ritual without Moral Obedience Although they bring their flocks and herds to seek the favor of the LORD, They will not find him– he has withdrawn himself from them!

  • Heb 11:37-38
    2 verses
    70%

    37They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

    38(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

  • Ps 107:13
    70%

    13They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • Num 21:4
    69%

    4Fiery Serpents Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way.

  • Lam 4:19
    69%

    19ק(Qof) Those who pursued us were swifter than eagles in the sky. They chased us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.

  • Deut 32:10
    69%

    10The LORD found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.

  • Job 6:18
    69%

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

  • Jer 9:2
    69%

    2(9:1) I wish I had a lodging place in the wilderness where I could spend some time like a weary traveler. Then I would desert my people and walk away from them because they are all unfaithful to God, a congregation of people that has been disloyal to him.

  • Ps 107:19
    69%

    19They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • 2 Chr 15:4
    68%

    4Because of their distress, they turned back to the LORD God of Israel. They sought him and he responded to them.

  • Ps 137:4
    68%

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

  • Mic 7:13
    68%

    13The earth will become desolate because of what its inhabitants have done.

  • Isa 27:10
    68%

    10For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the wilderness. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.

  • Job 24:7
    68%

    7They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.