'Wasteland' in the Bible

All along the way I, the Lord your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.'"

The Lord found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.

Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.

He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland and no one will ever pass through it again.

"I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.

I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, or the glad celebration of brides and grooms throughout the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. For the whole land will become a desolate wasteland."

Many foreign rulers will ruin the land where I planted my people. They will trample all over my chosen land. They will turn my beautiful land into a desolate wasteland.

This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.'

"Hazor will become a permanent wasteland, a place where only jackals live. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it."

The earth will tremble and writhe in agony. For the Lord will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia a wasteland where no one lives.

and rejected Esau. I turned Esau's mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals."