The Earth was void and empty and darkness was upon the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the water.

"He found him in a desert land, in a void ground and a roaring wilderness. He led him about and gave him understanding, and kept him as the apple of his eye.

And in the wilderness they had Betharabah, Middin and Secacah; Nibshan, the city of salt, and Engedi: Six cities with their villages.

for the paths that they go in are crooked: they haste after vain things, and shall perish.

Behold, even as the wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work, and rise betimes to spoil: Yea, the very wilderness ministereth food for them and their children. by times, as their manner is, to spoil: Yea the very wilderness ministereth food for their children.

For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars,

Yet for all this they sinned more against him, and provoked the most highest in the wilderness.

I am become like a pelican in the wilderness, and like an owl in a broken wall.

Let the wilderness with her cities lift up her voice; the towns also that be in Cedar. Let them be glad that sit upon rocks of stone; and let them cry down from the high mountains

that they suffered no thirst, when they travailed in the wilderness. He clave the rocks asunder, and the water gushed out."

and thy wantonness is like a wild Ass, that useth the wilderness, and that snuffeth and bloweth at his will. Who can tame thee? All they that seek thee, shall not fail, but find thee in thy own uncleanness.

{Gimel} The Dragons give their young ones suck with bare breasts: but the daughter of my people is cruel, and dwelleth in the wilderness like the Ostriches.

and hated Esau: Yea I have made his hills waste, and his heritage a wilderness for dragons."