'Wilderness' in the Bible

who turned the world into a wilderness,who destroyed its citiesand would not release the prisoners to return home?”

For the fortified city will be deserted,pastures abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness.Calves will graze there,and there they will spread out and strip its branches.

Then justice will inhabit the wilderness,and righteousness will dwell in the orchard.

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad;the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

Then the lame will leap like a deer,and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy,for water will gush in the wilderness,and streams in the desert;

A voice of one crying out:Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness;make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

Look, I am about to do something new;even now it is coming. Do you not see it?Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,rivers in the desert.

The animals of the field will honor Me,jackals and ostriches,because I provide water in the wilderness,and rivers in the desert,to give drink to My chosen people.

Why was no one there when I came?Why was there no one to answer when I called?Is My hand too short to redeem?Or do I have no power to deliver?Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke;I turn the rivers into a wilderness;their fish rot because of lack of waterand die of thirst.

For the Lord will comfort Zion;He will comfort all her waste places,and He will make her wilderness like Eden,and her desert like the garden of the Lord.Joy and gladness will be found in her,thanksgiving and melodious song.

and led them through the depthslike a horse in the wilderness,so that they did not stumble.

Your holy cities have become a wilderness;Zion has become a wilderness,Jerusalem a desolation.