'Desert' in the Bible

“He found him in a desert land,And in the howling waste of a wilderness;He encircled him, He cared for him,He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.

about 40,000 equipped for war, crossed for battle before the Lord to the desert plains of Jericho.

While the sons of Israel camped at Gilgal they observed the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains of Jericho.

It came about when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

“Behold, as wild donkeys in the wildernessThey go forth seeking food in their activity,As bread for their children in the desert.

To bring rain on a land without people,On a desert without a man in it,

Let the nomads of the desert bow before him,And his enemies lick the dust.

For not from the east, nor from the west,Nor from the desert comes exaltation;

Yet they still continued to sin against Him,To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

How often they rebelled against Him in the wildernessAnd grieved Him in the desert!

But craved intensely in the wilderness,And tempted God in the desert.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region;They did not find a way to an inhabited city.

It is better to live in a desert landThan with a contentious and vexing woman.

But desert creatures will lie down there,And their houses will be full of owls;Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there.

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

For the fortified city is isolated,A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert;There the calf will graze,And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.

The land mourns and pines away,Lebanon is shamed and withers;Sharon is like a desert plain,And Bashan and Carmel lose their foliage.

The desert creatures will meet with the wolves,The hairy goat also will cry to its kind;Yes, the night monster will settle thereAnd will find herself a resting place.

The wilderness and the desert will be glad,And the Arabah will rejoice and blossom;Like the crocus

A voice is calling,“Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness;Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.

“I will put the cedar in the wilderness,The acacia and the myrtle and the olive tree;I will place the juniper in the desertTogether with the box tree and the cypress,

“Behold, I will do something new,Now it will spring forth;Will you not be aware of it?I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,Rivers in the desert.

“The beasts of the field will glorify Me,The jackals and the ostriches,Because I have given waters in the wildernessAnd rivers in the desert,To give drink to My chosen people.

Indeed, the Lord will comfort Zion;He will comfort all her waste places.And her wilderness He will make like Eden,And her desert like the garden of the Lord;Joy and gladness will be found in her,Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see;Where have you not been violated?By the roads you have sat for themLike an Arab in the desert,And you have polluted a landWith your harlotry and with your wickedness.

Oh that I had in the desertA wayfarers’ lodging place;That I might leave my peopleAnd go from them!For all of them are adulterers,An assembly of treacherous men.

Who is the wise man that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a desert, so that no one passes through?

Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.”

“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting strawTo the desert wind.

“For he will be like a bush in the desertAnd will not see when prosperity comes,But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,A land of salt without inhabitant.

and all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who dwell in the desert;

Your mother will be greatly ashamed,She who gave you birth will be humiliated.Behold, she will be the least of the nations,A wilderness, a parched land and a desert.

“Therefore the desert creatures will live there along with the jackals;The ostriches also will live in it,And it will never again be inhabitedOr dwelt in from generation to generation.

“Her cities have become an object of horror,A parched land and a desert,A land in which no man livesAnd through which no son of man passes.

Or I will strip her nakedAnd expose her as on the day when she was born.I will also make her like a wilderness,Make her like desert landAnd slay her with thirst.

For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had seized him many times; and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and yet he would break his bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, “Get up and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a desert road.)

Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,”