Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

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.

NET Bible

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

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.

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 out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in. 5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.


Cross References

Numbers 14:33

Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

Genesis 21:14-16

Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Numbers 32:13

Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed.

Deuteronomy 8:15

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;

Job 12:24

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Psalm 107:40

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

Ezekiel 34:6

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

Hebrews 11:38

(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

Revelation 12:6

The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.

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