Psalm 107:7
New International Version
He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle.

New Living Translation
He led them straight to safety, to a city where they could live.

English Standard Version
He led them by a straight way till they reached a city to dwell in.

Berean Standard Bible
He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.

King James Bible
And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

New King James Version
And He led them forth by the right way, That they might go to a city for a dwelling place.

New American Standard Bible
He also had them walk on a straight way, To go to an inhabited city.

NASB 1995
He led them also by a straight way, To go to an inhabited city.

NASB 1977
He led them also by a straight way, To go to an inhabited city.

Legacy Standard Bible
He led them by a straight way, To go to an inhabited city.

Amplified Bible
He led them by the straight way, To an inhabited city [where they could establish their homes].

Christian Standard Bible
He led them by the right path to go to a city where they could live.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He led them by the right path to go to a city where they could live.

American Standard Version
He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city of habitation.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He walked them in the way of truth to go to inhabited cities.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he guided them into a straight path, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Contemporary English Version
At once he brought you to a town.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he led them into the right way: that they might go to a city of habitation.

English Revised Version
He led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He led them on a road that went straight to an inhabited city.

Good News Translation
He led them by a straight road to a city where they could live.

International Standard Version
He led them in a straight way to find a city where they could live.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And He led them by a straight way, That they might go to a city of habitation.

Literal Standard Version
And causes them to tread in a right way, | To go to a city of habitation.

Majority Standard Bible
He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.

New American Bible
Guided them by a direct path so they reached a city to live in.

NET Bible
He led them on a level road, that they might find a city in which to live.

New Revised Standard Version
he led them by a straight way, until they reached an inhabited town.

New Heart English Bible
he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

World English Bible
He led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

Young's Literal Translation
And causeth them to tread in a right way, To go unto a city of habitation.

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Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
6Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress. 7He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live. 8Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.…

Cross References
Numbers 9:23
They camped at the LORD's command, and they set out at the LORD's command; they carried out the LORD's charge according to His command through Moses.

Ezra 8:21
And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.

Psalm 5:8
Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.

Psalm 107:4
Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.

Psalm 107:36
He causes the hungry to settle there, that they may establish a city in which to dwell.

Jeremiah 31:9
They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel's Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn."


Treasury of Scripture

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

he led

Psalm 77:20
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalm 78:52
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Psalm 136:16
To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.

that they

Psalm 107:4,36
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in…

Nehemiah 11:3
Now these are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants.

Jeremiah 31:24,38
And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks…

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Psalm 107
1. The psalmist exhorts the redeemed in praising God to observe his manifold providence
4. Over travelers
10. Over captives
17. Over sick men
23. Over sailors
33. And in diverse varieties of life.














(7) By the right way.--Better, in a straight way. Even in the pathless wilderness "there is a hand that guides."

Verse 7. - And he led them forth by the right way; or, "by a straight way" - a way in which there was no crookedness. That they might go to a city of habitation. The same phrase as in ver. 4. A city suitable for habitation is meant.

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Hebrew
He led them
וַ֭יַּֽדְרִיכֵם (way·yaḏ·rî·ḵêm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1869: To tread, to walk, to string a, bow

on a straight
יְשָׁרָ֑ה (yə·šā·rāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 3477: Straight, right

path
בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ (bə·ḏe·reḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

to reach
לָ֝לֶ֗כֶת (lā·le·ḵeṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

a city
עִ֥יר (‘îr)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 5892: Excitement

where they could live.
מוֹשָֽׁב׃ (mō·wō·šāḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4186: A seat, assembly, dwelling place, dwelling, dwellers


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