6 Bible Verses about Deserts Used Figuratively

O you people of this generation consider the word of Jehovah! Have I been a wilderness, a land of thick darkness, for Israel? Why do my people say that they are free to wander around and no longer come to me?

The lame will leap and dance, and those who cannot speak will shout for joy. Streams of water will flow through the desert plain.

A voice of one calling: In the wilderness prepare the way for Jehovah. Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

But your mother will be greatly ashamed. The woman who gave birth to you will be disgraced. Babylon, you will be the least important nation. You will become a parched desert.

Even the jackals of the wasteland have full breasts and give milk to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the wasteland.

I will strip her naked and make her as in the day that she was born. I will make her as a wilderness, and make her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.