Quotes about Desert

Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.

Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.

Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.

The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.

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

Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.

until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.