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Psalm 107:7
He led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a 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.
8Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
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A straight way leads toward a city to live in, giving God's rescue a concrete destination for people worn down by hunger and thirst.
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Psalm 25:5Guide me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.Both connect guidance with God's saving help: Psalm 25 asks him to guide, and Psalm 107 recounts his leading.
Psalm 107:36There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,Both describe God's provision of a city to live in, with verse 36 naming the hungry as its residents.
Jeremiah 31:9They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for …Both describe God leading people by a straight way, with Jeremiah adding water and a path where they will not stumble.
Hebrews 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,Both name a city as a destination, though Hebrews speaks of arrival at the heavenly Jerusalem.
Psalm 77:20You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.Both recount God leading his people, with Psalm 77 naming Moses and Aaron as the human hands through which he led.
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, for our little ones, …Both speak of a straight way from God: Ezra seeks it in prayer, while the psalm recounts God's leading.
Hebrews 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.Both concern a place to live; the psalm names a city as the destination, while Hebrews describes dwelling in tents.
Nehemiah 9:12Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.Both recount God leading people along their way, with Nehemiah describing the cloud and fire that gave them light.
Isaiah 49:8–11The LORD says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the …Both describe God's help connected with a place for his people, a city in the psalm and land in Isaiah.
Psalm 78:52But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.Both describe God leading his people, with Psalm 78 comparing his guidance in the wilderness to tending a flock.
2 Peter 2:15Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;Both use the language of a way, though Peter describes moral departure while the psalm describes God leading people toward habitation.
Jeremiah 33:10–13The LORD says: “Yet again there will be heard in this place, about which you say, ‘It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, …Both speak of cities and human habitation, though Jeremiah describes desolate streets without inhabitants and the psalm names a place to live.
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The people described here had reached the point of fainting. Their strength was failing when they cried out, and God led them toward a place to live.
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