Look, I will be waiting at the fords of the desert until word from you ¹  reaches me.”

to the one who led his people through the wilderness, for his loyal love endures,

Yet I had pity on ¹  them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

However, in the future I will allure her; ¹  I will lead ²  her back into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make ¹  his paths straight.’” ² 

In the wilderness ¹  John the baptizer ²  began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. ³ 

during the high priesthood ¹  of Annas and Caiaphas, the word ²  of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. ³ 

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

Saul and his men went to look for him. ¹  But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

Saul camped by the road on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon, but David was staying in the desert. When he realized that Saul had come to the desert to find ¹  him,

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

They will hear, ‘Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!’ ¹ 

After they journeyed ¹  from Rephidim, they came to the Desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain. ² 

and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert. ¹ 

When ¹  the layer of dew had evaporated, ²  there on the surface of the desert was a thin flaky substance, ³  thin like frost on the earth.

He seized the leaders ¹  of the city, along with some desert thorns and briers; he then “threshed” the men of Succoth with them. ² 

He then asked, “Which invasion route are we going to take?” ¹  Jehoram ²  answered, “By the road through the Desert of Edom.”

He built up Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities he had built in Hamath.

O God, when you lead your people into battle, ¹  when you march through the desert, ²  (Selah)