Psalms 107:4
They wandered about in the desert—in a waste, Way to a city to dwell in, found they none;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
In Context
5Hungry—yea thirsty, their soul, within them, fainted:
Cross References
Genesis 21:14So Abraham rose up early in the morning—and took bread and a skin of water and gave unto hagar,—putting them on her shoulder and the child, and sent her forth,—so she went her way and wandered, in the desert of Beer-sheba.
Numbers 32:13So the anger of Yahweh kindled upon Israel, and he made them wander in the desert, forty years,—until all the generation who had done the evil in the eyes of Yahweh, had wasted away!
Deuteronomy 32:10He met him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness,—He encompassed him watched over him, Shielded him as the pupil of his own eye.
Psalms 107:40He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;
Ezekiel 34:12As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day he is in the midst of his sheep that are scattered, So! will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all the places where they were scattered in the day of cloud and thick darkness;
Revelation 12:6And, the woman, fled into the desert, where she hath a place prepared of God, that, there, they should nourish her a thousand, two hundred, and 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 →