17 Bible Verses about Living In The Wilderness

And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

And the goat upon which the lot fell for Azazel shall be set alive before Jehovah, to make atonement with it, to send it away as Azazel into the wilderness.

It is better to dwell in a desert land. than with a contentious and irritable woman.

Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah;

Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller's lodging-place, that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

The dwellers in the desert shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.

and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert;

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their beard cut off, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him, and put him to death; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

Now in those days comes John the baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,

There came John baptising in the wilderness, and preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came upon John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

And the child grew and was strengthened in spirit; and he was in the deserts until the day of his shewing to Israel.

Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?

For he had commanded the unclean spirit to go out from the man. For very often it had seized him; and he had been bound, kept with chains and fetters; and breaking the bonds he was driven by the demon into the deserts.