Quotes about Desert

And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.

God gave the Ten Commandments in the no-man's land of a desert rather than in the land of Israel, to signify these laws do not just belong to one people, but to all humanity.

This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.

all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

But if there had been an earlier "victory," when did it take place? Matthew, Mark, and Luke all supply the answer: at the beginning of Jesus's public career, during his forty-day fast in the desert, when the satan tried to distract him, to persuade him to grasp the right goal by the wrong means, and so to bring him over to his side (Matt. 4:1—11; Mark 1:12—13; Luke 4:1—13).

and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.

For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”

He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.