17 Bible Verses about Living In The Wilderness

They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.

but the goat which has been designated by lot for Azazel is to be stood alive before the Lord to make atonement on it by sending it away to Azazel into the wilderness.

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and easily-provoked woman.

Look, I will escape to a distant place; I will stay in the wilderness. (Selah)

I wish I had a lodging place in the desert where I could spend some time like a weary traveler. Then I would desert my people and walk away from them because they are all unfaithful to God, a congregation of people that has been disloyal to him.

Before him the coastlands will bow down, and his enemies will lick the dust.

all the kings of Arabia who live in the desert;

That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the Lord's sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts."

God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and executed Joab; he was buried at his home in the wilderness.

In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming,

In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

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

And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

to whom I appointed the steppe for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?

For Jesus had started commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, so he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard. But he would break the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.)