Psalm 78:52
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New International Version (©2011)
But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the wilderness.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But he led his own people like a flock of sheep, guiding them safely through the wilderness.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But He led forth His own people like sheep And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He led His people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Yet he led out his people like sheep, guiding them like a flock in the desert.

NET Bible (©2006)
Yet he brought out his people like sheep; he led them through the wilderness like a flock.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
He bore his people like sheep and led them like a flock in the wilderness.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But he led his own people out like sheep and guided them like a flock through the wilderness.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

American King James Version
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

American Standard Version
But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Darby Bible Translation
And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

English Revised Version
But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Webster's Bible Translation
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

World English Bible
But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Young's Literal Translation
And causeth His people to journey as a flock, And guideth them as a drove in a wilderness,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

78:40-55. Let not those that receive mercy from God, be thereby made bold to sin, for the mercies they receive will hasten its punishment; yet let not those who are under Divine rebukes for sin, be discouraged from repentance. The Holy One of Israel will do what is most for his own glory, and what is most for their good. Their forgetting former favours, led them to limit God for the future. God made his own people to go forth like sheep; and guided them in the wilderness, as a shepherd his flock, with all care and tenderness. Thus the true Joshua, even Jesus, brings his church out of the wilderness; but no earthly Canaan, no worldly advantages, should make us forget that the church is in the wilderness while in this world, and that there remaineth a far more glorious rest for the people of God.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 52. - But made his own people to go forth like sheep (comp. Psalm 77:20; Psalm 95:7). And guided them in the wilderness like a flock. The guidance began from Succoth, and was effected by means of the pillar of the cloud and the pillar of fire (see Exodus 13:20-22).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But made his own people to go forth like sheep,.... The people of Israel, whom the Lord chose to be his peculiar people above all others; these he caused to go forth out of Egypt, with a mighty hand and stretched out arm; like sheep, weak, timorous, unarmed, harmless, and inoffensive, not a dog daring to move his tongue at them: the power of God was wonderfully displayed in the delivery of his poor, helpless, and oppressed people, well may it be ascribed to him; for it was not their arm, but his, that brought them out:

and guided them in the wilderness like a flock; by the hands of Moses and Aaron, Psalm 77:20, he also going before them as the Shepherd of the flock, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; he kept them together as a flock from scattering, straying, and being lost; and directed their way in the untrodden wilderness, through all the windings and turnings of it, and protected them from all dangers and enemies.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

52-54. made his … forth—or, brought them by periodical journeys (compare Ex 15:1).

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I will Open My Mouth in Parables
…51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: 52But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 53And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. …

Exodus 15:22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.
Psalm 23:1 A psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
Psalm 68:7 When you, God, went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness,
Psalm 77:20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 107:41 But he lifted the needy out of their affliction and increased their families like flocks.
Psalm 136:16 to him who led his people through the wilderness; His love endures forever.
Ezekiel 34:31 You are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, declares the Sovereign LORD.'"