17 Bible Verses about Living In The Wilderness

Therefore shall he become as a shrub in the waste plain, Neither shall he perceive when good cometh, But shall inhabit Parched places in a wilderness, A land of salt that cannot he dwelt in.

but, the goat over which came up the lot for Azazel, shall he cause to stand alive - before Yahweh to put a propitiatory-covering over him, - to send him away unto Azazel, towards the desert.

Better to dwell in a desert land, than with a woman, quarrelsome and provoking.

Lo! I would take a distant flight, I would tarry in the wilderness. Selah.

Oh that I had in the wilderness, a wayfarers lodge, That I might leave my people, and go from them, - For they all, are Adulterers, An assemblage of traitors;

Before him, let the men of the desert kneel, But, as for his foes, the dust, let them lick;

And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the Bedawin, who dwell in the desert;

Upon Egypt and upon Judah, And upon Edom, and upon the sons of Ammon, And upon Moab, And upon all the clipped beards, The dwellers in the desert, - For, all the nations, are uncircumcised, And, all the house of Israel, are uncircumcised in heart.

And it came to pass that God was with the boy, and he grew, - and dwelt in the desert, and he became as he grew up, an archer,

And he dwelt in the desert of Paran, - and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

So Benaiah 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, came John the Immerser, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judaea;

John the Immerser came, in the wilderness, proclaiming an immersion of repentance for remission of sins;

in the High-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, came a word of God unto John the son, of Zechariah, in rue desert;

And, the child, went on growing, and being strengthened in spirit, and was in the deserts, until the day he was pointed out unto Israel.

Whose house I have made the waste plain, and his dwellings, the land of salt:

for he was about to charge the impure spirit to come out from the man. For, many times, had it snatched him away; and he used to be bound with chains and fetters, for a safe-guard, and was wont to break in pieces the bonds, and to be driven by the demon into the deserts.