'Wasteland' in the Bible

and from Bamoth to the valley that [is] in the territory of Moab, [by] the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the surface of the wasteland.

He found him in a desert land, and in a howling, desert wasteland; he {encircled him}, he cared for him, he protected him like the {apple} of his eye.

The paths of their way wind [around]; they go up into the wasteland, and they perish.

He strips [away] the insight of the heads of the earth's people, and he makes them wander in {a pathless wasteland}.

to satisfy desert and wasteland, and to cause [the ground] to put forth [the] rising of grass?

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in [the] wasteland!

And I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned and hoed, and it shall be overgrown [with] briers and thornbushes. And concerning the clouds, I will command {them not to send} rain down upon it.

I looked at the earth, and behold, it was wasteland and emptiness, and to the heavens, and [they were] without their light.

Because of the anger of Yahweh she will not be inhabited, but she will be a wasteland, all of her. Everyone [who] passes by Babylon will be appalled and will hiss because of all her wounds.

And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land a desolation and a wasteland from the desert to Riblah in all of their dwellings, and they will know that I [am] Yahweh." '"

And I will make the land desolation and wasteland, and the pride of its strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate {with no one traveling through them}." '

And they will know that I [am] Yahweh when I make my land desolation and wasteland, because of all of their detestable things that they have done.

and you must say to it, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against you, mountain of Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you desolation and wasteland.

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and he will destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry wasteland like the desert.