Psalms 107:4

World English Bible (2000)

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

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  • Deut 32:10 : 10 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
  • Num 14:33 : 33 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
  • Num 32:13 : 13 Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed.
  • Deut 8:15 : 15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;
  • Gen 21:14-16 : 14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 15 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
  • Job 12:24 : 24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
  • Ps 107:40 : 40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
  • Ezek 34:6 : 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.
  • Ezek 34:12 : 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
  • Heb 11:38 : 38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
  • Rev 12:6 : 6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 107:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

    6 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

    7 he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

  • Job 30:3-6
    4 verses
    78%

    3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

    4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.

    5 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

    6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

  • 6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'

  • Ps 107:39-40
    2 verses
    74%

    39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

    40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

  • Ps 107:33-36
    4 verses
    74%

    33 He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

    34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

    35 He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

    36 There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

  • 12 They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, and will not find it.

  • Ezek 34:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

    6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.

  • 3 And gathered out of 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 but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

    13 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

  • Job 24:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

    5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

  • 20 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

  • 43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

  • 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

  • 6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.

  • 14 "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

  • 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

  • 15 They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

  • Ps 107:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

    28 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.

  • 10 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

  • 15 Depart! they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more live [here].

  • 6 Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

  • 14 but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

  • 6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

  • Heb 11:37-38
    2 verses
    70%

    37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

    38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

  • 13 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

  • 4 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

  • 19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • 10 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

  • 18 The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

  • 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

  • 19 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.

  • 4 But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

  • 4 How can we sing Yahweh's song in a foreign land?

  • 13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

  • 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

  • 7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.