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And He led them forth by the right way, That they might go to a city for a dwelling place.
Psalms 107:7 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.
  • KJV And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
  • BSB He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.
  • NASB He also had them walk on a straight way, To go to an inhabited city.
  • NLT He led them straight to safety, to a city where they could live.

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Quick answer

God led the wanderers by a straight road to a city where they could settle.

Overview

In answer to their cry, the LORD guided the lost travelers along a direct path to a habitable city. The straight way contrasts with their aimless wandering and shows God as the faithful guide who brings his people home. It points to Christ, who is the way, leading his people to the city whose builder and maker is God.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
  • Ezra 8:21–23Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
  • Heb 11:9–10By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
  • Heb 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
  • Ps 77:20You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
  • Heb 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
  • Jer 33:10–13Yahweh says: “Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, ‘It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,’
  • Neh 11:3Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah everyone lived in his possession in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants.
  • Isa 30:21and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
  • Isa 49:8–11Yahweh says, “In an acceptable time I have answered you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:
  • Ps 107:36There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,
  • Ps 78:52But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
  • Ps 107:4They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
  • 2 Pet 2:15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
  • Jer 31:38–40“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
  • Isa 48:17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
  • Jer 31:24Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.
  • Rev 21:2–4I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
  • 2 Pet 2:21For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
  • Rev 21:10–27He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
  • Jer 6:16Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
  • Isa 63:13–14Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble?
  • Ps 136:16To him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:
  • Isa 35:8–10A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 107:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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