They wanderedin the wildernessin a desertregion;They did not finda wayto an inhabitedcity.
"He deprivesof intelligencethe chiefsof the earth'speopleAnd makes them wanderin a pathlesswaste.
He pourscontemptupon princesAnd makes them wanderin a pathlesswaste.
"As a shepherdcaresfor his herdin the daywhen he is amonghis scatteredsheep,soI will carefor My sheepand will deliverthem from allthe placesto whichthey were scatteredon a cloudyand gloomyday.
"My flockwanderedthrough allthe mountainsand on everyhighhill;My flockwas scatteredoverallthe surfaceof the earth,and therewas nooneto searchor seek[for them]."'"
Your sonsshall be shepherdsfor fortyyearsin the wilderness,and they will suffer[for] your unfaithfulness,untilyour corpsesliein the wilderness.
"So the LORD'Sangerburnedagainst Israel,and He made them wanderin the wildernessfortyyears,untilthe entiregenerationof those who had doneevilin the sightof the LORDwas destroyed.
"He foundhim in a desertland,And in the howlingwasteof a wilderness;He encircledhim, He caredfor him, He guardedhim as the pupilof His eye.
"He ledyou through the greatand terriblewilderness,[with its] fieryserpentsand scorpionsand thirstygroundwheretherewas nowater;He broughtwaterfor you out of the rockof flint.
([men] of whomthe worldwas not worthy),wanderingin desertsand mountainsand cavesand holesin the ground.
Thenthe womanfledinto the wildernesswhereshe hada placepreparedby God,sothat thereshe would be nourishedfor one thousandtwo hundredand sixtydays.
