58 Verses About Desert from 18 Books

1 Samuel 23:19

Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

1 Samuel 23:24

They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

1 Samuel 26:1

The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?"

1 Samuel 26:3

Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

Acts 8:26

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert."

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

Additions to Esther 13:18

for he, who was the worker of these things, is hanged at the gates of Susa with all his family: God, who rules all things, speedily rendering vengeance to him according to his deserts.



Galatians 1:6

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

Habakkuk 1:9

All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

Hebrews 11:38

(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

Isaiah 13:21

But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

Isaiah 33:9

The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.



Isaiah 34:14

The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.

Isaiah 35:1

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

Isaiah 35:6

Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

Isaiah 40:3

The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

Isaiah 41:19

I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;

Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs forth now. Don't you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 43:20

The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,



Isaiah 48:21

They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

Isaiah 51:3

For the LORD has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Jeremiah 2:6

Neither did they say, 'Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'

Jeremiah 17:6

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

Jeremiah 39:9

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.

Jeremiah 50:12

your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Jeremiah 50:39

Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.



Jeremiah 51:43

Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

Job 24:5

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

Jude 1:6

Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Leviticus 11:18

the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,

Luke 1:80

The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

Luke 5:16

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

Luke 8:29

For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.



Luke 9:10

The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.

Luke 9:12

The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place."

Mark 1:35

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

Mark 1:45

But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.

Mark 6:31

He said to them, "You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

Mark 6:32

They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.

Mark 6:35

When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.

Mark 8:4

His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"

Matthew 14:13

Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.

Matthew 14:15

When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, "This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food."

Matthew 15:33

The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"

Numbers 21:20

and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.

Numbers 23:28

Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

Proverbs 21:19

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

Psalms 62:12

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work. A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah.

Psalms 74:14

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

Psalms 78:17

Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Psalms 78:40

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Psalms 106:9

He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

Psalms 106:14

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

Psalms 107:4

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

Psalms 107:33

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

Psalms 107:35

He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.





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