Quotes About Wilderness

and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.

But I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.

And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.

In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea

This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ëPrepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.í”

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

As Johnís disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?

So if they tell you, ëThere He is in the wilderness,í do not go out; or, ëHere He is in the inner rooms,í do not believe it.

“A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ëPrepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.í”

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

At once the Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness,

and He was there for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him.

And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the wilderness until the time of his public appearance to Israel.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ëPrepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.

After Johnís messengers had left, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?