Psalms 107:40
He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
BSB
ASV
He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.
KJV
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
In these two verses we see how the Lord at will turns the wheel of providence. Paying no respect to man's imaginary grandeur, he puts princes down and makes them wander in banishment as they had made their captives wander when they drove them from land to land: at the same time, having ever a tender regard for the poor and needy, the Lord delivers the distressed and sets them in a position of comfort and happiness.
He punishes the wicked by destroying the sources of fertility, or, in mercy, gives fruitfulness to deserts, which become the homes of a busy and successful agricultural population. By a permitted misrule and tyranny, this scene of prosperity is changed to one of adversity.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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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…
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He spoke, and insects swarmed— gnats throughout their country.
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Job 12:24He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
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He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.
So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
Let his mind be changed from that of a man, and let him be given the mind of a beast till seven times pass him by.
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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…
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You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge…
You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven,…
