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Bible Verses About Wilderness

This collection includes 50 passages about Wilderness. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Scripture Passages

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They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

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And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

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Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

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Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

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

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Neither said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that 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 no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

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And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.

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But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

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And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

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And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

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And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.

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

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But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;

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He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

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Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

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And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

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And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh–barnea.

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So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

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How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

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Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

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See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.

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And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El–paran, which is by the wilderness.

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The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

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And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

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The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

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For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

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But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

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He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

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And when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

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And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

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But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

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And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;

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But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

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Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

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I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

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And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

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And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed.

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As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

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And they departed from before Pi–hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.

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And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

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