Quotes About Wilderness

so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

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

How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.

He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.

Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?

Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.

And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes.

She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.