17 Bible Verses about Living In The Wilderness

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before Jehovah, to make atonement for him, to send him away for Azazel into the wilderness.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; And his enemies shall lick the dust.

and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the wilderness;

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

And in those days cometh John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, saying,

John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins.

in the highpriesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.

Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

For he was commanding the unclean spirit to come out from the man. For oftentimes it had seized him: and he was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters; and breaking the bands asunder, he was driven of the demon into the deserts.