Psalm 107:40 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He pours contempt upon princes and causes them to wander in waste places where there is no road. American Standard Version (1901) He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way. Common English Bible God pours contempt on their leaders, making them wander aimlessly in the wastelands. |
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? and thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
He taketh away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.
And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.
And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and there were lice upon man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
And the LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.
and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
and the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.
And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye:
that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.
Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great discomfiture: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and tumours brake out upon them.
Then said they, What shall be the guilt offering which we shall return to him? And they said, Five golden tumours, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.