'In The Desert' in the Bible
“Behold, as wild donkeys in the wildernessThey go forth seeking food in their activity,As bread for their children in the desert.
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.
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.
“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.
“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;