Psalms 107:4
They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
In Context
3From the rising and the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea.
5They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.
Cross References
Genesis 21:14So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.
Numbers 32:13And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed.
Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Psalms 107:40Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.
Ezekiel 34:12As the shepherd visiteth his hock in the day when he shall be in the midst of his sheep that were scattered, so will I visit my sheep, and will deliver them out of all the places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Revelation 12:6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, that there they should feed her a thousand two hundred sixty days.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 107:2-10
Exhortation to Celebrate God's Praises. 1 O give thanks unto the Lord , for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; 3 And gathered them 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 solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. 5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. 6 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered… Read the whole commentary →