17 Bible Verses about Living In The Wilderness

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

But the goat on which the lot for the scapegoat fell shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.

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

“Behold, I would wander far away,
I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah.

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

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

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

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.”

God was with the lad, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him and put him to death, and he was buried at his own house in the wilderness.

Now in those days John the Baptist *came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

And the child continued to grow and to become strong in spirit, and he lived in the deserts until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

To whom I gave the wilderness for a home
And the salt land for his dwelling place?

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.