Psalms 107:40
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.”
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“He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.”
King James Version · Public Domain“He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy--no way.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 107:40 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Exodus 8:4The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Joshua 10:24When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.
- Judges 1:6As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
- 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 5:9But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.
- 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 you and your rulers.
- 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 the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”
- 2 Kings 9:35But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
- Job 12:21He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
- Job 12:24He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- Psalms 78:66He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
- Psalms 107:4Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
- Isaiah 23:8Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?
- Jeremiah 13:15Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.
- 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 eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
- Daniel 5:5At 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,
- Daniel 5:18As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.
- Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- 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.”
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