'Deserts' in the Bible

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

But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.

For he commanded the unclean spirit to come forth from the man, for many times it had caught him, and he was being bound with chains and fetters -- guarded, and breaking asunder the bonds he was driven by the demons to the deserts.

The hired worker, who isn't the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, deserts the sheep, and runs away. So the wolf snatches them and scatters them,

(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.