'Desert' in the Bible

He found him in a desert land, And in the waste, howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he watched over him, He preserved him as the apple of his eye.

See, I will stop in the plains of the desert, until there come word from you to inform me.

And he built towers in the desert and digged many cisterns; for he had much cattle, both in the lowland and on the plateau, husbandmen also and vinedressers on the mountains and in Carmel; for he loved husbandry.

Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

Give them according to their doing, and according to the wickedness of their deeds; give them after the work of their hands, render to them their desert.

The dwellers in the desert shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.

Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.

Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way, they found no city of habitation;

It is better to dwell in a desert land. than with a contentious and irritable woman.

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him.

But beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through, so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

Behold the land of the Chaldeans: this people did not exist; the Assyrian founded it for the dwellers in the desert: they set up their towers, they destroyed the palaces thereof; he brought it to ruin.

The land mourneth, it languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, is withered; the Sharon is become as a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped.

And there shall the beasts of the desert meet with the jackals, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; the lilith also shall settle there, and find for herself a place of rest.

The wilderness and the dry land shall be gladdened; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and torrents in the desert.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God!

I will give in the wilderness the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oleaster; I will set in the desert the cypress, pine, and box-tree together;

For Jehovah shall comfort Zion, he shall comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.

And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert;

Your mother hath been sorely put to shame; she that bore you hath been covered with reproach: behold, she is become hindmost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Therefore wild beasts of the desert with jackals shall dwell there, and ostriches shall dwell therein; and it shall be no more inhabited for ever, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no one dwelleth, neither doth a son of man pass thereby.

O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in desert places.