'Wasteland' in the Bible

from Bamoth to the valley in the territory of Moab near the Pisgah highlands that overlook the wasteland.

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

He deprives the world’s leaders of reason,and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Emaciated from poverty and hunger,they gnawed the dry land,the desolate wasteland by night.

to satisfy the parched wastelandand cause the grass to sprout?

I made the wilderness its home,and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

and fruitful land into salty wasteland,because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

I will make it a wasteland.It will not be pruned or weeded;thorns and briers will grow up.I will also give orders to the cloudsthat rain should not fall on it.

I have not spoken in secret,somewhere in a land of darkness.I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:Seek Me in a wasteland.I, Yahweh, speak truthfully;I say what is right.

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard;they have trampled My plot of land.They have turned My desirable plotinto a desolate wasteland.

therefore this is what the Lord God says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off both man and animal from it. I will make it a wasteland; they will fall by the sword from Teman to Dedan.

A fire destroys in front of them,and behind them a flame devours.The land in front of themis like the Garden of Eden,but behind them,it is like a desert wasteland;there is no escape from them.

Egypt will become desolate,and Edom a desert wasteland,because of the violence done to the people of Judahin whose land they shed innocent blood.

Then the earth will become a wastelandbecause of its inhabitantsand as a result of their actions.

Therefore, as I live—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts,the God of Israel—Moab will be like Sodomand the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place overgrown with weeds,a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.The remnant of My people will plunder them;the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.

but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”