Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

[he] pours contempt on princes and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

New American Standard Bible

He pours contempt upon princes
And makes them wander in a pathless waste.

King James Version

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

Holman Bible

He pours contempt on nobles
and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

International Standard Version

Having poured contempt on their nobles, causing them to err aimlessly in the way.

A Conservative Version

He pours contempt upon rulers, and causes them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

American Standard Version

He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

Amplified


He pours contempt on princes
And makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;

Julia Smith Translation

He poured out contempt upon the nobles, and he will cause them to wander in a waste of not a way.

King James 2000

He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

Modern King James verseion

He pours scorn on nobles, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no path.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

though he suffer them to be evil-entreated through tyrants, or let them wander out of the way in the wilderness,

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;

Webster

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy -- no way.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He poureth
שׁפך 
Shaphak 
Usage: 115

בּוּז 
Buwz 
Usage: 11

נדיב 
Nadiyb 
Usage: 28

תּעה 
Ta`ah 
Usage: 50

in the wilderness
תּהוּ 
Tohuw 
Usage: 20

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Thanksgiving To Yahweh For His Of Deliverance

39 When they become few and they are bent down from [the] oppression of calamity and grief, 40 [he] pours contempt on princes and causes them to wander in a trackless waste. 41 But he protects [the] needy from misery, and he makes [their] families like a flock.


Cross References

Job 12:24

He strips [away] the insight of the heads of the earth's people, and he makes them wander in {a pathless wasteland}.

Job 12:21

He pours contempt on noblemen, and he loosens [the] girdle of [the] mighty.

Exodus 8:3

And the Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will go up and come into your house and into your {bedroom} and onto your bed and into the house of your servants and among your people and into your ovens and into your kneading troughs.

Exodus 8:17

And he did so, and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and he struck the dust of the land, and it became gnats on the humans and on the animals; all of the dust of the land became gnats in all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8:24

And Yahweh did so, and a {severe} [swarm of] flies came to the house of Pharaoh and the house of his servants and in all the land of Egypt; the land was ruined because of the flies.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found him in a desert land, and in a howling, desert wasteland; he {encircled him}, he cared for him, he protected him like the {apple} of his eye.

Joshua 10:24-26

And when they brought these kings to Joshua, Joshua called all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of {the fighting men} who had gone with him, "Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings." So they came near and put their feet on their necks.

Judges 1:6-7

And Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued after him; they caught him and cut off {his thumbs and big toes}.

Judges 4:21

But Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, took in her hand a tent peg and a hammer, and she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; he [was] fast asleep since he was exhausted, and he died.

1 Samuel 5:9

After they moved it, the hand of Yahweh was against the city, causing a very great confusion, and he struck the men of the city {from the youngest to the oldest}, causing tumors to break out on them.

1 Samuel 6:4

And they said, "What [is] the guilt offering that we should return to him?" They said, "The number of the rulers of [the] Philistines [is] five. Therefore send five gold tumors and five gold mice, because one plague [was] on all of you and all your rulers.

1 Kings 21:19

You shall say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Have you committed murder and also taken possession?" ' You shall also say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh: "In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, the dogs will also lick your blood." '"

2 Kings 9:35-37

When they went to bury her, they could not find her, except the skull, the feet, and the palms of the hands.

Psalm 78:66

And he beat back his enemies; he gave them over to perpetual scorn.

Psalm 107:4

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

Isaiah 23:8-9

Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants [were] princes, her traders [the] honored ones of [the] earth?

Jeremiah 13:15-18

Listen, and pay attention, you must not be haughty, for Yahweh has spoken.

Daniel 4:33

{Immediately} the word was fulfilled {concerning} Nebuchadnezzar, and he was expelled from {human society} and he ate grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven until his hair [was] like [the hair of] an eagle and his nails grew like bird's [claws].

Daniel 5:5-6

{Immediately} {human fingers} appeared and they wrote {opposite} the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king, and the king was watching the palm of the hand that was writing.

Daniel 5:18-30

{O king}, the Most High God gave the kingdom and the greatness and the glory and the majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your {predecessor}.

Acts 12:23

And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down {because} he did not give the glory to God. And he was eaten by worms [and] died.

Revelation 19:18

in order that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of military tribunes, and the flesh of the powerful, and the flesh of horses and those seated on them, and the flesh of all [people], both free and slave, and small and great!"

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