Psalm 107:40 {106:40}
Good News Translation
he showed contempt for their oppressors and made them wander in trackless deserts.

New Revised Standard Version
he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;

Contemporary English Version
But the LORD will take revenge on those who conquer you, and he will make them wander across desert sands.

New American Bible
Where they were diminished and brought low through misery and cruel oppression.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.

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Job 12:21,24 He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed. . . .

Isaiah 23:8,9 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, that was formerly crowned, whose merchants were princes, and her traders the nobles of the earth? . . .

contempt

Psalm 78:66 And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.

Exodus 8:3,17,24 And the river shall bring forth an abundance of frogs; which shall come up and enter into thy house, and thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the houses of thy servants, and to thy people, and into thy ovens, and into the remains of thy meats: . . .

Joshua 10:24-26 And when they were brought out to him, he called all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the army that were with him: Go, and set your feet on the necks of these kings. And when they had gone, and put their feet upon the necks of them lying under them, . . .

Judges 1:6,7 And Adonibezec fled: and they pursued after him and took him, and cut off his fingers and toes. . . .

Judges 4:21 So Jahel, Haber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and taking also a hammer: and going in softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon the temples of his head, and striking it with the hammer, drove it through his brain fast into the ground: and so passing from deep sleep to death, he fainted away and died.

1 Samuel 5:9 And while they were carrying it about, the hand of the Lord came upon every city with an exceeding great slaughter: and he smote the men of every city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts. And the Gethites consulted together, and made themselves seats of skins.

1 Samuel 6:4 They answered: What is it we ought to render unto him for sin? and they answered:

1 Kings 21:19 And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast slain: moreover also thou hast taken possession. And after these words thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.

2 Kings 9:35-37 And when they went to bury her, they found nothing but the skull, and the feet, and the extremities of her hands. . . .

Daniel 4:33 At the same time my sense returned to me, and I came to the honour and glory of my kingdom: and my shape returned to me: and my nobles, and my magistrates, sought for me, and I was restored to my kingdom: and greater majesty was added to me.

Daniel 5:5,6,18-30 In the same hour there appeared fingers, as it were of the hand of a man, writing over against the candlestick, upon the surface of the wall of the king's palace: and the king beheld the joints of the hand that wrote. . . .

Acts 12:23 And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost.

Revelation 19:18 That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and of great.

causeth

Psalm 107:4 They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.

Job 12:24 He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way.

Jeremiah 13:15-18 Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken. . . .

wilderness.

Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
39Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow. 40Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.41And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Job 12:21
He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed.

Job 12:24
He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way.

Psalm 68:6
God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.

Isaiah 40:23
He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity.

Daniel 4:24
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee, and redeem thou thy sins with alms, and thy iniquities with works of mercy to the poor: perhaps he will forgive thy offences.

Psalm 107:39
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