17 Bible Verses about Living In The Wilderness

For he shall be like the shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.

But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman.

Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men; that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people that dwell in the desert,

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the farthest corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

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

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and struck him down, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zachariah in the wilderness.

And the child grew, and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For often it had seized him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he broke the bonds, and was driven by the demon into the desert.)