Quotes about Wilderness

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,

and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.

Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.

Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.

Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—

Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.

In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.