And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.

In the waste land, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah; And Nibshan, and the Town of Salt, and En-gedi; six towns with their unwalled places.

The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.

They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.

And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.