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the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Psalms 107:4

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Poetry of the Hebrews;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Discontent;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Wandering;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Wilderness of the Wanderings;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeshimon;   Wilderness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Desert, Wilderness;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilderness;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Roads;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Some wandered in the wilderness, lost and homeless.
English Revised Version
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; they found no city of habitation.
Update Bible Version
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.
New Century Version
Some people had wandered in the desert lands. They found no city in which to live.
New English Translation
They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.
Webster's Bible Translation
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Amplified Bible
They wandered in the wilderness in a [solitary] desert region; And did not find a way to an inhabited city.
English Standard Version
Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei erriden in wildirnesse, in a place with out watir; thei founden not weie of the citee of dwellyng place.
Berean Standard Bible
Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city to dwell in.
Contemporary English Version
Some of you were lost in the scorching desert, far from a town.
American Standard Version
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.
Bible in Basic English
They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.
Complete Jewish Bible
They wandered in the desert, on paths through the wastes, without finding any inhabited city.
Darby Translation
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way, they found no city of habitation;
Easy-to-Read Version
Some of them wandered in the dry desert. They were looking for a place to live, but they could not find a city.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; they found no city of habitation.
King James Version (1611)
They wandred in the wildernes, in a solitary way: they found no citie to dwell in.
New Life Bible
Some traveled through the desert wastes. They did not find a way to a city where they could live.
New Revised Standard
Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town;
Geneva Bible (1587)
When they wandered in the desert and wildernesse out of the waie, and founde no citie to dwell in,
George Lamsa Translation
They were lost in the wilderness in a place without water; they found not the right way to an inhabited town.
Good News Translation
Some wandered in the trackless desert and could not find their way to a city to live in.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They wandered about in the desert - in a waste, Way to a city to dwell in, found they none;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(106-4) They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.
Revised Standard Version
Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They went astray out of the way in solitarines [and] in wildernes, and found no citie to dwell in:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They wandered in the wilderness in a dry land; they found no way to a city of habitation.
Christian Standard Bible®
Some wandered in the desolate wilderness,finding no way to a city where they could live.
Hebrew Names Version
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
King James Version
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Lexham English Bible
They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert. They could find no way to a city to inhabit.
Literal Translation
They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert way; they found no city of dwelling;
Young's Literal Translation
They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They wente astraye in the wildernesse in an vntroden waye, & founde no cite to dwell in.
THE MESSAGE
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.
New American Standard Bible
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region; They did not find a way to an inhabited city.
New King James Version
They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way; They found no city to dwell in.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region; They did not find a way to an inhabited city.
Legacy Standard Bible
They wandered in the wilderness along the way of the wasteland;They did not find an inhabited city.

Contextual Overview

1 Give thanks to Yahweh, For he is good, For his lovingkindness endures forever. 2 Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, Whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, 3 Gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south. 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in. 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. 8 Let them praise Yahweh for his lovingkindness, For his wonderful works to the children of men! 9 For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

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.


 
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