'Wilderness' in the Bible

You sustained them in the wilderness for 40 years. They lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.

when a strong wind came straight out of the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people, and they died. I alone escaped to tell you!"

He withdraws understanding from national leaders of the world, causing them to wander through uncharted wilderness.

"Look! Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they work diligently as they seek wild game in the desert, food for them and their young ones.

The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude

Also to you, Lord, belongs gracious love, because you reward each person according to what he does. A Davidic Psalm, while he was in the Judean wilderness.

The wilderness pastures drip with dew, and the hills wrap themselves with joy.

For exaltation comes not from the east, the west, or the wilderness,

He caused the rocks to split in the wilderness, and gave them water as from an abundant sea.

How they rebelled against him in the desert, grieving him in the wilderness!

do not be stubborn like your ancestors were at Meribah, as on that day at Massah, in the wilderness,

I resemble a pelican in the wilderness or an owl in a desolate land.

They were overwhelmed with craving in the wilderness, so God tested them in the wasteland.

So he swore an oath concerning them that he would cause them to die in the wilderness,

They wandered in desolate wilderness; they found no road to a city where they could live.

To the one who led his people into the wilderness, for his gracious love is everlasting

It's better to live in the wilderness than to live with a contentious and irritable woman.

"Then justice will live in the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.

then the lame will leap like deer, and the tongues of speechless people will sing for joy. Yes, waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams will run through the desert;

A voice cries out: "In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD; and in the desert a straight highway for our God.'

I'll put cedar trees in the wilderness, along with acacia, myrtle, and olive trees. I'll plant cypresses in the desert box trees, and pine trees together

Watch! I'm about to carry out something new! And now it's springing up don't you recognize it? I'm making a way in the wilderness and paths in the desert.

Wild animals, jackals, and owls will honor me because I provide water in the desert and streams in the wilderness to give drink to my people, my chosen ones,

For the LORD will have compassion on Zion, have compassion on all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her deserts like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving, and the sound of singing. Sorrow and sighing will flee away.

"They didn't ask, "Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through the land of desert and pits, through the land of dryness and deep darkness, a land that people don't pass through, and where no one lives?'

He will be like a bush in the desert, and he won't see when good comes. He will dwell in parched places in the wilderness, a land of salt, without inhabitants.

Indeed, the land is full of adulterers. Indeed, the land mourns because of the curse; the pastures of the wilderness have dried up. The adulterers' lifestyles are evil, and they use their strength for what is not right.

your mother will be greatly devastated, she who gave birth to you will be ashamed. She will become the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Even wild animals nurse, suckling their young; but the women of my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

Our pursuers were swifter than soaring eagles; they pursued us over the mountains, lying in wait for us in the wilderness.

I'll stretch out my hands to strike them and send devastation to the land, from the wilderness of Diblah, throughout all their dwelling places. Then they'll know that I am the LORD."

I brought them out of the land of Egypt to bring them to the wilderness

"But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn't live by my statutes. They despised my ordinances, which if a person observes, he'll live by them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my anger on them and bring them to an end in the wilderness.

"Moreover, I solemnly swore to them in the wilderness that I wouldn't bring them to the land that I had given them a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands

Even then, I looked on them with compassion and didn't completely destroy them in the wilderness.

I told their children in the wilderness, "You are not to follow the statutes of your ancestors, observe their ordinances, or be defiled by their idols.

"But they rebelled against me. They didn't live according to my statutes, observe my ordinances, or practice them, by which a person will live. They also kept profaning my Sabbaths. So I said that I was going to pour out my anger on them and in my anger I'm going to bring about a complete end to them in the wilderness.

"Futhermore, I solemnly swore in the wilderness to disperse them among the nations and scatter them to other lands

I'll bring you into the wilderness of the nations. I'll judge you right there, face to face.

Just as I judged your ancestors in the wilderness in the land of Egypt, so I'll judge you," declares the LORD.

The sound of a carefree multitude accompanied her. Men from a multitude of nations were coming including Sabeans from the wilderness, adorned with bracelets on their hands and beautiful crowns on their heads.

"I'm going to enter into a covenant with them, one of peace, and I'll eliminate wild beasts from the land so they can live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forests.

Otherwise, I'll strip her naked as she was on the day she was born make her like a wilderness, turn her into a parched land, and cause her to die of thirst.

"Therefore, look! I will now allure her. I will make her go out to the wilderness, and will speak to her heart.

"I found Israel, as one finds grapes in the wilderness; Your ancestors seemed to me like the fruit gleaned from a fig tree's first harvest. When they went to Baal-peor, they devoted themselves to that filth, and they became loathsome, like what they loved.

I took care of you in the wilderness, in a waterless land.

Even though he is fruitful compared to his relatives, an east wind will come, the LORD's wind storm from the wilderness, and his spring will evaporate. His fountain will dry up, and the LORD's wind storm will plunder all the expensive vessels of the treasury.

Furthermore, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, leading you in the wilderness for 40 years, to take possession of the land of the Amorites.

"So look, house of Israel! I will raise up a nation against you," declares the LORD, the God of the Heavenly Armies, "and they will harass you from the entrance of Hamath to the wadi of the wilderness."

"And the LORD will attack the north, destroying Assyria. He will turn Nineveh into a desolate ruin, as dry as a desert wilderness.

About this time, John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the Judean wilderness,

He was the one the prophet Isaiah was referring to when he said, "He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"

After this, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil.

As they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John. "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

The disciples asked him, "Where in the wilderness are we to get enough bread to feed such a crowd?"

So if they say to you, "Look! He's in the wilderness,' don't go out looking for him. And if they say, "Look! He's in the storeroom,' don't believe it,

He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"

John was baptizing in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism about repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

At once the Spirit drove him into the wilderness.

He was in the wilderness for 40 days being tempted by Satan. He was among wild animals, and angels were ministering to him.

His disciples answered him, "Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people out here in the wilderness?"

Now the child continued to grow and to become spiritually strong. He lived in the wilderness until the day he appeared in Israel.

and Annas and Caiaphas high priests, a message from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.

as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!

Then Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to ask the crowds about John. "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

"Suppose one of you has 100 sheep and loses one of them. He leaves the 99 in the wilderness and looks for the one that is lost until he finds it, doesn't he?

He replied, "I am ""a voice crying out in the wilderness, "Prepare the Lord's highway,"' as the prophet Isaiah said."

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness and died.

As a result, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness. There he remained with his disciples.

It was he who led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for 40 years.

This Moses is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and to our ancestors. He received living truths to give to us,

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the heavenly bodies. As it is written in the book of the Prophets: "O house of Israel, you didn't offer me slaughtered animals and sacrifices those 40 years in the wilderness, did you?

"Our ancestors had the Tent of Testimony in the wilderness constructed, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

After he had put up with them for 40 years in the wilderness,

But God wasn't pleased with most of those people, and so they were struck down in the wilderness.

do not harden your hearts as they did when they provoked me during the time of testing in the wilderness.

And with whom was he angry for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned and whose bodies fell dead in the wilderness?

Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where a place had been prepared for her by God so that she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

However, the woman was given the two wings of a large eagle so that she could fly away from the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she could be taken care of for a time, times, and half a time.

Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was controlled by blasphemy. It had seven heads and ten horns.