⁴ Some of the redeemed had wandered into the desert, into the wasteland.
    They couldn’t find their way to a city or town.
⁵ They were hungry and thirsty;
    their lives were slipping away.
⁶ So they cried out to the Lord in their distress,
    and God delivered them from their desperate circumstances.
⁷     God led them straight to human habitation.

³³ God turns rivers into desert,
    watery springs into thirsty ground,
³⁴     fruitful land into unproductive dirt,
        when its inhabitants are wicked.
³⁵ But God can also turn the desert into watery pools,
    thirsty ground into watery springs,
³⁶     where he settles the hungry.
They even build a city and live there!
³⁷     They plant fields and vineyards
    and obtain a fruitful harvest.