They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.

Here is a message about the Desert by the Sea: ¹  Like strong winds blowing in the south, ²  one invades from the desert, from a land that is feared.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him ¹  in the desert!

Let the desert and dry region be happy; ¹  let the wilderness ²  rejoice and bloom like a lily!

all the kings of Arabia who ¹  live in the desert;

“The Lord says, ¹  ‘That is why I will scatter your people ²  like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind. ³ 

In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving ¹  for meat; ²  they challenged God ³  in the desert.

It is better to live ¹  in a desert land ²  than with a quarrelsome and easily-provoked ³  woman.

I am like an owl ¹  in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl ²  among the ruins. ³ 

Like ¹  wild donkeys in the desert they ²  go out to their labor, ³  seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides ⁴  food for them and for their children.

A voice cries out, “In the wilderness clear a way for the Lord; construct in the desert a road for our God.

to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, ¹  a desert where there are no human beings, ² 

Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the sovereign One ¹  in the desert.

I will make cedars, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees grow in the wilderness; I will make evergreens, firs, and cypresses grow together in the desert.

The Lord’s shout shakes ¹  the wilderness, the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. ² 

Baalath, Tadmor in the wilderness, ¹ 

But Babylonia will be put to great shame. The land where you were born ¹  will be disgraced. Indeed, ²  Babylonia will become the least important of all nations. It will become a dry and barren desert.

The wild animals of the desert honor me, the jackals and ostriches, because I put water in the desert and streams in the wilderness, to quench the thirst of my chosen people,

Before him the coastlands ¹  will bow down, and his enemies will lick the dust. ² 

He turned ¹  streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,