17 Bible Verses about Temporary Stay In The Wilderness

And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

And there was great weeping in all the country when all the people went through; and the king himself was waiting in the Kidron valley and all the people went by him in the direction of the olive-tree on the edge of the waste land.

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.

For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.

And straight away the Spirit sent him out into the waste land.

But he went out, and made it public, giving an account of it everywhere, so that Jesus was no longer able to go openly into a town, but was outside in the waste land; and they came to him from every part.

And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

And when the men who were sent by John had gone away, he said to the people, about John, What did you go out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.

But he went away by himself to a waste place for prayer.

And the day went on; and the twelve came to him and said, Send these people away so that they may go into the towns and the country round about and get resting-places and food for themselves, for we are in a waste place.

So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

Are you by chance the Egyptian who, before this, got the people worked up against the government and took four thousand men of the Assassins out into the waste land?

Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.