Psalms 107:40

In 11 translations

BSB

He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

KJV

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.wilderness: or, void place

WEB

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

ASV

He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

LSV

He is pouring contempt on nobles, || And causes them to wander in vacancy—no way.

YLT

He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy — no way.

DBY

He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;

DRC106:40

Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.

GNV

He powreth contempt vpon princes, and causeth them to erre in desert places out of the way.

JPS

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

LXXE106:40

Contempt is poured upon their princes, and he causes them to wander in a desert and trackless land.

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Original-language editions

WLC

שֹׁפֵ֣ךְ בּ֭וּז עַל־נְדִיבִ֑ים וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗ם בְּתֹ֣הוּ לֹא־דָֽרֶךְ׃

LXX-Br106:40

Ἐξεχύθη ἐξουδένωσις ἐπʼ ἄρχοντας αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπλάνησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν ἀβάτῳ καὶ οὐχ ὁδῷ.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 12:24He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
• Job 12:21He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
• Daniel 4:33At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an…
• Isaiah 23:8–9Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth? The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned…
• Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
• Exodus 8:17This they did, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.
• Revelation 19:18so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”
• Psalms 107:4Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
• Daniel 5:5–6At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing, his face grew pale and his thoughts so…
• Exodus 8:3The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
• Judges 4:21But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
• 1 Samuel 6:4“What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both…
• 1 Kings 21:19Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also…
• Exodus 8:24And the LORD did so. Thick swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined by swarms of flies.
• Psalms 78:66He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
• Daniel 5:18–30As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor. Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in…

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