Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

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.

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 Making them come together out of all the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. 4 They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place. 5 Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

Cross References

Numbers 14:33

And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.

Genesis 21:14-16

And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

Numbers 32:13

Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.

Deuteronomy 8:15

Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

Job 12:24

He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

Psalm 107:40

He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

Ezekiel 34:6

And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.

Ezekiel 34:12

As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night.

Hebrews 11:38

Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.

Revelation 12:6

And the woman went in flight to the waste land, where she has a place made ready by God, so that there they may give her food a thousand, two hundred and sixty days.

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