According to Hugh Nibley, when Lehi dreams of people gone astray, they are lost in a trackless waste, "wandering in strange roads" (1 Nephi 8:32) or blundering "into broad roads, that they perish and are lost" (1 Nephi 12:17) because of the "mist of darkness" (1 Nephi 8:23). Losing one's way is of course the fate that haunts every desert dweller sleeping and waking, and the Arab poets are full of the terror of "strange roads" and "broad ways." [Hugh Nibley, Lehi in the Desert, F.A.R.M.S., pp. 45-46]
Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land
(1 Nephi )