Parallel Verses

NET Bible

They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.

New American Standard Bible

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region;
They did not find a way to an inhabited city.

King James Version

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

Holman Bible

Some wandered in the desolate wilderness,
finding no way to a city where they could live.

International Standard Version

They wandered in desolate wilderness; they found no road to a city where they could live.

A Conservative Version

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city of habitation.

American Standard Version

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.

Amplified


They wandered in the wilderness in a [solitary] desert region;
And did not find a way to an inhabited city.

Bible in Basic English

They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

Darby Translation

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way, they found no city of habitation;

Julia Smith Translation

They will wander in the desert in a waste; the way of a city of dwelling they found not

King James 2000

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert. They could find no way to a city to inhabit.

Modern King James verseion

They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert by the way; they found no city to dwell in.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They went astray in the wilderness in an untrodden way, and found no city to dwell in.

New Heart English Bible

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

The Emphasized Bible

They wandered about in the desert - in a waste, Way to a city to dwell in, found they none;

Webster

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

World English Bible

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

Youngs Literal Translation

They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
תּעה 
Ta`ah 
Usage: 50

in the wilderness
מדבּר 
Midbar 
Usage: 271

in a solitary
ישׁימון 
Y@shiymown 
Usage: 13

way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

no city
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

to dwell
משׁב מושׁב 
Mowshab 
Usage: 44

References

Context Readings

Thanksgiving To Yahweh For His Of Deliverance

3 and gathered from foreign lands, from east and west, from north and south. 4 They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live. 5 They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.

Cross References

Numbers 14:33

and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 32:10

The Lord found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.

Genesis 21:14-16

Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

Numbers 32:13

So the Lord's anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the Lord was finished.

Deuteronomy 8:15

and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

Job 12:24

He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.

Psalm 107:40

He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

Ezekiel 34:6

My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.

Hebrews 11:38

(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

Revelation 12:6

and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.

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