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Psalm 107:5

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

3and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
4They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
7He led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.
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Notice

Hunger and thirst reach into the whole person here: the wilderness travelers lack food and water, and their strength is giving out.

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Where else Scripture says this

6 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Mark 8:2–3“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days and have nothing to eat.Both passages describe people without food; Jesus expresses compassion for the multitude, while the psalm records the travelers’ failing strength.
Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the …Both passages describe people fainting from hunger, with Lamentations naming children in the streets and urging prayer for their lives.
1 Samuel 30:11–12They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.Bread and water given to the Egyptian address the bodily needs named in the psalm: hunger and thirst.
Judges 15:18–19He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and …Thirst threatens life in both accounts, and the surrounding psalm passage also describes a cry to the LORD.
Isaiah 44:12The blacksmith takes an ax, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no …Both texts link hunger and lack of water with failing strength and faintness.
Jeremiah 14:18If I go out into the field, then behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet …Both passages show the bodily toll of lacking food, though Jeremiah describes famine in a city amid war.
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Encouragement

The psalm names hunger and thirst before it tells of rescue; the people who cried to YHWH were faint with need when he delivered them.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).