the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Psalms 107:4
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Some wandered in the wilderness, lost and homeless.
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; they found no city of habitation.
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.
Some people had wandered in the desert lands. They found no city in which to live.
They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
They wandered in the wilderness in a [solitary] desert region; And did not find a way to an inhabited city.
Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;
Thei erriden in wildirnesse, in a place with out watir; thei founden not weie of the citee of dwellyng place.
Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city to dwell in.
Some of you were lost in the scorching desert, far from a town.
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.
They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.
They wandered in the desert, on paths through the wastes, without finding any inhabited city.
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way, they found no city of habitation;
Some of them wandered in the dry desert. They were looking for a place to live, but they could not find a city.
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; they found no city of habitation.
They wandred in the wildernes, in a solitary way: they found no citie to dwell in.
Some traveled through the desert wastes. They did not find a way to a city where they could live.
Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town;
When they wandered in the desert and wildernesse out of the waie, and founde no citie to dwell in,
They were lost in the wilderness in a place without water; they found not the right way to an inhabited town.
Some wandered in the trackless desert and could not find their way to a city to live in.
They wandered about in the desert - in a waste, Way to a city to dwell in, found they none;
(106-4) They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.
Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;
They went astray out of the way in solitarines [and] in wildernes, and found no citie to dwell in:
They wandered in the wilderness in a dry land; they found no way to a city of habitation.
Some wandered in the desolate wilderness,finding no way to a city where they could live.
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert. They could find no way to a city to inhabit.
They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert way; they found no city of dwelling;
They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found.
They wente astraye in the wildernesse in an vntroden waye, & founde no cite to dwell in.
Some of you wandered for years in the desert, looking but not finding a good place to live, Half-starved and parched with thirst, staggering and stumbling, on the brink of exhaustion. Then, in your desperate condition, you called out to God . He got you out in the nick of time; He put your feet on a wonderful road that took you straight to a good place to live. So thank God for his marvelous love, for his miracle mercy to the children he loves. He poured great draughts of water down parched throats; the starved and hungry got plenty to eat.
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region; They did not find a way to an inhabited city.
They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way; They found no city to dwell in.
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region; They did not find a way to an inhabited city.
They wandered in the wilderness along the way of the wasteland;They did not find an inhabited city.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
wandered: Psalms 107:40, Genesis 21:14-16, Numbers 14:33, Deuteronomy 8:15, Deuteronomy 32:10, Job 12:24, Ezekiel 34:6, Ezekiel 34:12, Hebrews 11:38, Revelation 12:6
they found: This is the first similitude; in which the Israelites in captivity are compared to travellers in a dreary, uninhabited, and barren desert, spent with hunger and thirst, as well as by the fatigues of the journey.
Reciprocal: Genesis 21:17 - fear Job 5:24 - sin Psalms 107:7 - that they Ecclesiastes 10:15 - because Isaiah 49:11 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way,.... Not the people of Israel, as the Targum. These seem not to be particularly intended, whatever allusion there may be to their passage through the wilderness to Canaan's land; but rather, in general, travellers through waste places, especially the wild deserts of Arabia; where the wind blowing the sand, covers the roads with it, so that frequently travellers lose their way, and wander about, till directed to it by one providence or another. Some compare this with the case of the Old Testament saints, mentioned in Hebrews 11:37 others with the church in the wilderness, and the witnesses prophesying in sackcloth,
Revelation 11:2. But it is certain that the redeemed and gathered are here meant; and this fitly describes their case, before and at effectual calling: they are in the wilderness of the people,
Ezekiel 20:35, from whence they are gathered; are in a state of error and ignorance; are like straying sheep, gone out of the right way; and are as lost sheep, they have lost their way; and though there may be many ways that present unto them, and which they think bid fair to be the right way; yet the true way of peace, life, and salvation by Christ, they know not, while in a state of nature and unregeneracy; and when they come to be effectually called, they see themselves to be in a bewildered state and condition.
They found no city to dwell in; nor even to call at or lodge in, for miles together; which is the case of travellers in some parts, particularly in the deserts of Arabia. Spiritual travellers find no settlement, rest, peace, joy, and comfort, but in Christ; nor any indeed in this world, and the things of it; here they have no continuing city, Hebrews 13:14.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They wandered in the wilderness - On their return from Babylon; or, when God was conducting them again to their own land. The word “wilderness” in the Scriptures means a desolate, barren, uninhabited region, usually destitute of trees, of springs, and of water-courses. It does not denote, as it does with us, a region of extensive “forests.” Compare the notes at Matthew 4:1.
In a solitary way - Rather, in a “waste” way; a land that was desolate and uncultivated.
They found no city to dwell in - In their journeyings. This was true of the region between Babylon and Palestine; a wide, barren, desolate waste.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 107:4. They wandered in the wilderness — Here begins the FINEST comparison: the Israelites in captivity are compared to a traveller in a dreary, uninhabited, and barren desert, spent with hunger and thirst, as well as by the fatigues of the journey, Psalms 107:5.
