Psalms 107:40
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
KJV
He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.
ASV
שֹׁפֵ֣ךְ בּ֭וּז עַל נְדִיבִ֑ים וַ֝/יַּתְעֵ֗/ם בְּ/תֹ֣הוּ לֹא דָֽרֶךְ
Hebrew
He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy--no way.
YLT
He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בּ֭וּז
bvz
noun · 11×
דֶּ֣רֶךְ
drk
noun · 709×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 51×
נָדִ֑יב
ndyb
noun · 28×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שְׁפָךְ
shpk
verb · 115×
תֹ֖הוּ
thv
noun · 20×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 21:19 — And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the
- 1Sam 5:9 — And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emer
- 1Sam 6:4 — Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for
- 2Kgs 9:35 — And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
- Acts 12:23 — And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
- Dan 4:24 — This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
- Dan 4:33 — The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ fe
- Dan 5:5 — In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
- Dan 5:18 — O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
- Deut 32:10 — He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
- Exod 8:3 — And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and i
- Exod 8:17 — And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land o
- Exod 8:24 — And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of
- Isa 23:8 — Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
- Isa 40:23 — That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
- Jer 13:15 — Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
- Job 5:24 — And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
- Job 12:21 — He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
- Job 12:21 — He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
- Job 12:24 — He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
- Job 12:24 — He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
- Josh 10:24 — And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your
- Josh 10:24 — And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your
- Judg 1:6 — But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
- Judg 4:21 — Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep a
- Luke 1:52 — He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
- Num 14:33 — And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
- Ps 68:6 — God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
- Ps 78:66 — And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
- Ps 107:4 — They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
- Ps 107:4 — They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
- Rev 19:18 — That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both sm