Psalm 107:40 - Easy To Read Version God shamed and embarrassed their leaders.\par God let them wander through the desert\par where there are no roads.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Tell Ahab that I, the Lord, say to him, ‘Ahab! You killed the man Naboth. Now you are taking his land. So I tell you this! In the same place that Naboth died, you will also die. The dogs that licked Naboth’s blood will lick your blood in the same place!’”
God makes leaders not important.\par He takes power away from rulers.\par
God makes leaders foolish.\par He makes them wander aimlessly\par through the desert.\par
Some of them wandered in the dry desert.\par They were looking for a place to live,\par but they could not find a city.\par
God forced his enemy back\par and defeated them.\par God defeated his enemies\par and disgraced them forever.\par
They did this. Aaron raised the stick in his hand and hit the dust on the ground, and everywhere in Egypt the dust became lice. The lice got on the animals and the people.
So the Lord did just what he said. Many, many flies came into Egypt. The flies were in Pharaoh’s house, and they were in all his officials’ houses. The flies were all over Egypt. The flies were ruining the country.
The Nile River will be filled with frogs. They will come from the river and enter your houses. They will be in your bedrooms, and in your beds. The frogs will be in the houses of your officials and in your ovens and in your jars of water.
Those things happened immediately. Nebuchadnezzar was forced to go away from people. He began eating grass like a cow. He became wet from dew. {\cf2\super [49]} His hair grew long like the feathers of an eagle. And his nails grew long like the claws of a bird.
Herod \{accepted this praise and\} did not give the glory to God. So an angel of the Lord caused him to become sick. He was eaten by worms inside him, and he died.
“The Lord found Jacob (Israel) in a desert land, an empty, windy land. The Lord surrounded Jacob to watch over him. He protected him, like the pupil of his eye.
Come together so that you can eat the bodies of rulers and army commanders and famous men. Come to eat the bodies of the horses and their riders and the bodies of all people—free, slave, small, and great.”
But Jael found a tent peg and a hammer. Jael quietly went to Sisera. Sisera was very tired, so he was sleeping. Jael put the tent peg to the side of Sisera’s head and hit it with a hammer. The tent peg went through the side of Sisera’s head and into the ground! Sisera died.
But after the Philistines had moved God’s Holy Box [66] to Gath, the Lord punished that city. The people became very scared. God caused many troubles for all the people—young and old. God caused the people in Gath to have tumors. [67]
The Philistines asked, “What kind of gifts should we send for Israel’s God to forgive us?”