Haller's Concordance: DESERT
- And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert, Gen. 16:7
- ¤ Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. Ex. 3:1
- And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet Moses. And he went forth to meet him in the mountain of God, and kissed him. Ex. 4:27
- ¤ After these things, Moses and Aaron went in, and said to Pharao: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Let my people go, that they may sacrifice to me in the desert. Ex. 5:1
- And thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews sent me to thee, saying: Let my people go to sacrifice to me in the desert: and hitherto thou wouldst not hear. Ex. 7:16
- But he led them about by the way of the desert, which is by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. Ex. 13:18
- And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in. Ex. 14:3
- ¤ And they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out of the land of Egypt. Ex. 16:1
- And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine? Ex. 16:3
- ¤ Then all the multitude of the children of Israel setting forward from the desert of Sin, by their mansions, according to the word of the Lord, encamped in Raphidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. Ex. 17:1
- And Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, came with his sons, and his wife to Moses into the desert, where he was camped by the mountain of God. Ex. 18:5
- For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai, they camped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tents over against the mountain. Ex. 19:2
- And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you. Ex. 23:31
- Which the Lord appointed to Moses in mount Sinai, when he commanded the children of Israel, that they should offer their oblations to the Lord in the desert of Sinai. Lev. 7:38
- And putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offences and sins. And praying that they may light on its head, he shall turn him out by a man ready for it, into the desert. Lev. 16:21
- And when the goat hath carried all their iniquities into an uninhabited land, and shall be let go into the desert: Lev. 16:22
- And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed. Lev. 26:33
- ‡ ¤ And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of the covenant, the first day of the second month, the second year of their going out of Egypt, saying: Num. 1:1
- As the Lord had commanded Moses. And they were numbered in the desert of Sinai. Num. 1:19
- Now Nadab and Abiu died, without children, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the desert of Sinai: and Eleazar and Ithamar performed the priestly office in the presence of Aaron their father. Num. 3:4
- And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying: Num. 3:14
- ¤ The Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying: Num. 9:1
- And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan. Num. 10:12
- And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in the desert of Pharan. Num. 12:16
- Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these: Num. 13:3
- And when they were gone up, they viewed the land from the desert of Sin, unto Rohob as you enter into Emath. Num. 13:21
- And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land: Num. 13:26
- Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert, Num. 14:33
- Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except thou rule also like a lord over us? Num. 16:13
- ¤ And the children of Israel, and all the multitude came into the desert of Sin, in the first month: and the people abode in Cades. And Mary died there, and was buried in the same place. Num. 20:1
- Which they left and encamped over against Arnon, which is in the desert and standeth out on the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is the border of Moab, dividing the Moabites and the Amorrhites. Num. 21:13
- From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked towards the desert. Num. 21:20
- And he would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders: but rather gathering an army, went forth to meet them in the desert, and came to Jasa and fought against them. Num. 21:23
- ¤ And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless Israel, he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but setting his face towards the desert, Num. 24:1
- Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai. Num. 26:64
- Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition, that was raised against the Lord under Core, but he died in his own sin: and he had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family, because he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our father. Num. 27:3
- Because you offended me in the desert of Sin in the contradiction of the multitude, neither would you sanctify me before them at the waters. These are the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin. Num. 27:14
- And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed. Num. 32:13
- And departing from Phihahiroth, they passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and having marched three days through the desert of Etham, they camped in Mara. Num. 33:8
- They camped in the desert of Sin. Num. 33:11
- And departing from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai. Num. 33:15
- But departing also from the desert of Sinai, they came to the graves of lust. Num. 33:16
- They removed from thence and came into the desert of Sin, which is Cades. Num. 33:36
- And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, that dwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath and from Asiongaber, we came to the way that leadeth to the desert of Moab. Dt. 2:8
- And the plain of the wilderness, and the Jordan, and the borders of Cenereth unto the sea of the desert, which is the most salt sea, to the foot of mount Phasga eastward. Dt. 3:17
- And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no. Dt. 8:2
- Every place, that your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours. From the desert, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto the western sea shall be your borders. Dt. 11:24
- He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age. Dt. 29:5
- He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye. Dt. 32:10
- Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction, in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel. Dt. 32:51
- From the desert, and from Libanus unto the great river Euphrates, all the land of the Hethites, unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border. Josu. 1:4
- Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people that came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war, died in the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way: Josu. 5:4
- Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert, Josu. 5:5
- And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning, and went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array, toward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his back. Josu. 8:14
- ¤ Now the lot of the children of Juda by their kindreds was this: From the frontier of Edom, to the desert of Sin southward, and to the uttermost part of the south coast. Josu. 15:1
- In the desert Betharaba, Meddin and Sachacha, Josu. 15:61
- And he said to them: When the Lord therefore shall have delivered Zebee and Salmana into my hands, I will thresh your flesh with the thorns and briers of the desert. Judg. 8:7
- So he took the ancients of the city, and thorns and briers of the desert, and tore them with the same, and cut in pieces the men of Soccoth. Judg. 8:16
- But when they came up out of Egypt, he walked through the desert to the Red Sea, and came into Cades. Judg. 11:16
- And began to go towards the way of the desert, the enemy pursuing them thither also. And they that fired the city came also out to meet them. Judg. 20:42
- Woe to us: for there was no such great joy yesterday, and the day before: Woe to us. Who shall deliver us from the hand of these high Gods? these are the Gods that struck Egypt with all the plagues in the desert. 1 Ki. 4:8
- And another went by the way of Bethoron, and the third turned to the way of the border, above the valley of Seboim towards the desert. 1 Ki. 13:18
- Now when Eliab his eldest brother heard this, when he was speaking with others, he was angry with David, and said: Why camest thou hither? and why didst thou leave those few sheep in the desert? I know thy pride, and the wickedness of thy heart: that thou art come down to see the battle. 1 Ki. 17:28
- But David abode in the desert in strong holds, and he remained in a mountain of the desert of Ziph, in a woody hill. And Saul sought him always: but the Lord delivered him not into his hands. 1 Ki. 23:14
- And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life. And David was in the desert of Ziph, in a wood. 1 Ki. 23:15
- And the Ziphites went up to Saul, in Gabaa, saying: Lo, doth not David lie hid with us in the strong holds of the wood, in mount Hachila, which is on the right hand of the desert. 1 Ki. 23:19
- And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: and David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the plain at the right hand of Jesimon. 1 Ki. 23:24
- ¤ And when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, they told him, saying: Behold, David is in the desert of Engaddi. 1 Ki. 24:1
- I have heard that thy shepherds that were with us in the desert were shearing: we never molested them, neither was there ought missing to them of the flock at any time, all the while they were with us in Carmel. 1 Ki. 25:7
- These men were very good to us, and gave us no trouble: Neither did we ever lose any thing all the time that we conversed with them in the desert. 1 Ki. 25:15
- And they all wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself went over the brook Cedron, and all the people marched towards the way that looketh to the desert. 2 Ki. 15:23
- And the king said to Siba: What mean these things? And Siba answered: The asses are for the king's household to sit on: and the loaves and the figs for thy servants to eat, and the wine to drink if any man be faint in the desert. 2 Ki. 16:2
- So Banaias, the son of Joiada, went up, and setting upon him slew him, and he was buried in his house in the desert. 3 Ki. 2:34
- And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my soul: for I am no better than my fathers. 3 Ki. 19:4
- And the Lord said to him: Go, and return on thy way, through the desert, to Damascus: and when thou art come thither, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Syria; 3 Ki. 19:15
- And he said: Which way shall we go up? But he answered: By the desert of Edom. 4 Ki. 3:8
- And eastward he had his habitation as far as the entrance of the desert, and the river Euphrates. For they possessed a great number of cattle in the land of Galaad. 1 Par. 5:9
- But the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the desert, and the altar of holocausts, was at that time in the high place of Gabaon. 1 Par. 21:29
- And he built Palmira in the desert, and he built other strong cities in Emath. 2 Par. 8:4
- And they rose early in the morning, and went out through the desert of Thecua: and as they were marching, Josaphat standing in the midst of them, said: Hear me, ye men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be secure: believe his prophets, and all things shall succeed well. 2 Par. 20:20
- And when Juda came to the watch tower, that looketh toward the desert, they saw afar off all the country, for a great space, full of dead bodies, and that no one was left that could escape death. 2 Par. 20:24
- And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every man should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God appointed for all Israel, in the desert. 2 Par. 24:9
- And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many cisterns, for he had much cattle both in the plains, and in the waste of the desert: he had also vineyards and dressers of vines in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he was a man that loved husbandry. 2 Par. 26:10
- Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go. 2 Esd. 9:19
- Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn. 2 Esd. 9:21
- Then the angel Raphael took the devil, and bound him in the desert of upper Egypt. Tob. 8:3
- And all the land thereof that is desert shall be filled with people, and the house of God which is burnt in it, shall again be rebuilt: and all that fear God shall return thither. Tob. 14:7
- And he took by assault the renowned city of Melothus, and pillaged all the children of Tharsis, and the children of Ismahel, who were over against the face of the desert, and on the south of the land of Cellon. Jud. 2:13
- A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children, and they are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee. Job 1:19
- He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps. Job 15:28
- Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children. Job 24:5
- They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel. Job 30:6
- That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass? Job 38:27
- The voice of the Lord shaketh the desert: and the Lord shall shake the desert of Cades. Ps. 29:8
- In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory. Ps. 63:2
- O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert: Ps. 68:7
- For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills: Ps. 75:6
- How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water? Ps. 78:40
- And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water. Ps. 106:14
- And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert; Ps. 106:26
- Who led his people through the desert: for his mercy endureth for ever. Ps. 136:16
- Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of the perfumer? Cant. 3:6
- Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee. Cant. 8:5
- A mighty wind shall stand up against them, and as a whirlwind shall divide them: and their iniquity shall bring all the earth to a desert, and wickedness shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty. Wis. 5:24
- They went through wildernesses that were not inhabited, and in desert places they pitched their tents. Wis. 11:2
- Quarrel not with a passionate man, and go not into the desert with a bold man: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no help he will overthrow thee. Sir. 8:19
- My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert. Sir. 10:31
- The wild ass is the lion's prey in the desert: so also the poor are devoured by the rich. Sir. 13:23
- ¤ Send forth, O Lord, the lamb, the ruler of the earth, from Petra of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Sion. Isa. 16:1
- ¤ The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land. Isa. 21:1
- And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land. Isa. 32:2
- Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert shall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest. Isa. 32:15
- The land hath mourned, and languished: Libanus is confounded, and become foul, and Saron is become as a desert: and Basan and Carmel are shaken. Isa. 33:9
- Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall be free: for waters are broken out in the desert, and streams in the wilderness. Isa. 35:6
- The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God. Isa. 40:3
- I will open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the impassable land into streams of waters. Isa. 41:18
- I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the elm, and the box tree together: Isa. 41:19
- Let the desert and the cities thereof be exalted: Cedar shall dwell in houses: ye inhabitants of Petra, give praise, they shall cry from the top of the mountains. Isa. 42:11
- Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily you shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. Isa. 43:19
- The beast of the field shall glorify me, the dragons and the ostriches: because I have given waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, to my chosen. Isa. 43:20
- They thirsted not in the desert, when he led them out: he brought forth water out of the rock for them, and he clove the rock, and the waters gushed out. Isa. 48:21
- Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst. Isa. 50:2
- The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and will comfort all the ruins thereof: and he will make her desert as a place of pleasure, and her wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of praise. Isa. 51:3
- The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is desolate. Isa. 64:10
- Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not sown. Jer. 2:2
- And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt? Jer. 2:6
- At that time it shall be said to this people, and to Jerusalem: A burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert of the way of the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse. Jer. 4:11
- For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man that passeth through them: and they have not heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts they are gone away and departed. Jer. 9:10
- Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the children of Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair polled round, that dwell in the desert: for all the nations are uncircumcised in the flesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. Jer. 9:26
- Behold the sound of a noise cometh, a great commotion out of the land of the north: to make the cities of Juda a desert, and a dwelling for dragons. Jer. 10:22
- And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert. Jer. 13:24
- For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited. Jer. 17:6
- Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath mourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up: and their course is become evil, and their strength unlike. Jer. 23:10
- And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the west, that dwell in the desert. Jer. 25:24
- Thus saith the Lord: The people that were left and escaped from the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall go to his rest. Jer. 31:2
- And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war saw them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city by the way of the king's garden, and by the gate that was between the two walls, and they went out to the way of the desert. Jer. 39:4
- But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them: and they took Sedecias in the plain of the desert of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him. Jer. 39:5
- For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall become a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all her cities shall be everlasting wastes. Jer. 49:13
- How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and destroyed! how is Babylon turned into a desert among the nations! Jer. 50:23
- And the land shall be in a commotion, and shall be troubled: for the design of the Lord against Babylon shall awake, to make the land of Babylon desert and uninhabitable. Jer. 51:29
- But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king: and they overtook Sedecias in the desert which is near Jericho: and all his companions were scattered from him. Jer. 52:8
- Ghimel. Even the sea monsters have drawn out the breast, they have given suck to their young: the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert. Lam. 4:3
- We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert. Lam. 5:9
- And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will make the land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all their dwelling places: and they shall know that I am the Lord. Ezec. 6:14
- And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry. Ezec. 19:13
- Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and brought them into the desert. Ezec. 20:10
- But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them. Ezec. 20:13
- So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to bring them into the land which I had given them flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands. Ezec. 20:15
- Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert. Ezec. 20:17
- But their children provoked me, they walked not in my commandments, nor observed my judgments to do them: which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they violated my sabbaths: and I threatened to pour out my indignation upon them, and to accomplish my wrath in them in the desert. Ezec. 20:21
- As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 20:36
- And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing: and to some that were brought of the multitude of men, and that came from the desert, they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads. Ezec. 23:42
- And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall upon the face of the earth, thou shalt not be taken up, nor gathered together: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the air. Ezec. 29:5
- And the land of Egypt shall become a desert, and a wilderness: and they shall know that I am the Lord, because thou hast said: The river is mine, and I made it. Ezec. 29:9
- And I will make the land a wilderness, and a desert, and the proud strength thereof shall fail, and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, because there is none to pass by them, Ezec. 33:28
- And he said to me: These waters that issue forth toward the hillocks of sand to the east, and go down to the plains of the desert, shall go into the sea, and shall go out, and the waters shall be healed. Ezec. 47:8
- I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved. Osee 9:10
- I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness. Osee 13:5
- Because he shall make a separation between brothers: the Lord will bring a burning wind that shall rise from the desert, and it shall dry up his springs, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall carry off the treasure of every desirable vessel. Osee 13:15
- And I will remove far off from you the northern enemy: and I will drive him into a land unpassable, and desert, with his face towards the east sea, and his hinder part towards the utmost sea: and his stench shall ascend, and his rottenness shall go up, because he hath done proudly. Joel 2:20
- Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel? Amso 5:25
- But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you from the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert. Amso 6:14
- He rebuketh the sea and drieth it up: and bringeth all the rivers to be a desert. Basan languisheth and Carmel: and the flower of Libanus fadeth away. Nah. 1:4
- And their strength shall become a booty, and their houses as a desert: and they shall build houses, and shall not dwell in them: and they shall plant vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them. Soph. 1:13
- For Gaza shall be destroyed, and Ascalon shall be a desert, they shall cast out Azotus at noonday, and Accaron shall be rooted up. Soph. 2:4
- Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the dryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the remnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them. Soph. 2:9
- And he will stretch out his hand upon the north, and will destroy Assyria: and he will make the beautiful city a wilderness, and as a place not passable, and as a desert. Soph. 2:13
- This is the glorious city that dwelt in security: that said in her heart: I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desert, a place for beasts to lie down in? every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. Soph. 2:15
- I have destroyed the nations, and their towers are beaten down: I have made their ways desert, so that there is none that passeth by: their cities are desolate, there is not a man remaining, nor any inhabitant. Soph. 3:6
- And all the land shall return even to the desert, from the hill to Remmon to the south of Jerusalem: and she shall be exalted, and shall dwell in her own place, from the gate of Benjamin even to the place of the former gate, and even to the gate of the corners: and from the tower of Hananeel even to the king's winepresses. Zach. 14:10
- But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert. Mal. 1:3
- Then many that sought after judgment, and justice, went down into the desert 1 Ma. 2:29
- Now Jerusalem was not inhabited, but was like a desert: there was none of her children that went in or out: and the sanctuary was trodden down: and the children of strangers were in the castle, there was the habitation of the Gentiles: and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and harp ceased there. 1 Ma. 3:45
- And Judas Machabeus, and Jonathan, his brother, passed over the Jordan, and went three days' journey through the desert. 1 Ma. 5:24
- Then Judas and his army suddenly turned their march into the desert, to Bosor, and took the city: and he slew every male by the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burnt it with fire. 1 Ma. 5:28
- And Jonathan, and Simon, his brother, knew it, and all that were with them: and they fled into the desert of Thecua, and they pitched by the water of the lake of Asphar, 1 Ma. 9:33
- And Jonathan, and Simon, and they that were with him, retired into Bethbessen, which is in the desert: and he repaired the breaches thereof, and they fortified it. 1 Ma. 9:62
- And they that were in the castle, sent messengers to Tryphon, that he should make haste to come through the desert, and send them victuals. 1 Ma. 13:21
- But Judas Machabeus, who was the tenth, had withdrawn himself into a desert place, and there lived amongst wild beasts in the mountains with his company: and they continued feeding on herbs, that they might not be partakers of the pollution. 2 Ma. 5:27
- ¤ And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea. Mt. 3:1
- For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. Mt. 3:3
- ¤ Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. Mt. 4:1
- And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: What went you out into the desert to see? a reed shaken with the wind? Mt. 11:7
- Which when Jesus had heard, he retired from thence by boat, into a desert place apart, and the multitudes having heard of it, followed him on foot out of the cities. Mt. 14:13
- And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past: send away the multitudes, that going into the towns, they may buy themselves victuals. Mt. 14:15
- And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude? Mt. 15:33
- If therefore they shall say to you, Behold he is in the desert: go ye not out. Behold he is in the closets: believe it not. Mt. 24:26
- A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight his paths. Mk. 1:3
- John was in the desert, baptizing and preaching the baptism of penance, unto remission of sins. Mk. 1:4
- And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the desert. Mk. 1:12
- And he was in the desert forty days and forty nights, and was tempted by Satan. And he was with beasts: and the angels ministered to him. Mk. 1:13
- And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and there he prayed. Mk. 1:35
- But he being gone out, began to publish and to blaze abroad the word: so that he could not openly go into the city, but was without in desert places. And they flocked to him from all sides. Mk. 1:45
- And he said to them: Come apart into a desert place, and rest a little. For there were many coming and going: and they had not so much as time to eat. Mk. 6:31
- And going up into a ship, they went into a desert place apart. Mk. 6:32
- And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past: Mk. 6:35
- Under the high priests Annas and Caiphas: the word of the Lord was made unto John, the son of Zachary, in the desert. Lk. 3:2
- ¤ And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led by the spirit into the desert, Lk. 4:1
- And when it was day, going out he went into a desert place: and the multitudes sought him, and came unto him. And they stayed him that he should not depart from them. Lk. 4:42
- And he retired into the desert; and prayed. Lk. 5:16
- And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak to the multitudes concerning John. What went ye out into the desert to see? A reed shaken with the wind? Lk. 7:24
- And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all they had done. And taking them, he went aside into a desert place, apart, which belongeth to Bethsaida. Lk. 9:10
- Now the day began to decline. And the twelve came and said to him: Send away the multitude, that, going into the towns and villages round about, they may lodge and get victuals; for we are here in a desert place. Lk. 9:12
- What man of you that hath an hundred sheep, and if he shall lose one of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after that which was lost, until he find it? Lk. 15:4
- And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up: Jn. 3:14
- Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Jn. 6:31
- Your fathers did eat manna in the desert: and are dead. Jn. 6:49
- Wherefore Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews: but he went into a country near the desert, unto a city that is called Ephrem. And there he abode with his disciples. Jn. 11:54
- And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him, in the desert of mount Sina, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush. Acts 7:30
- He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years. Acts 7:36
- And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel? Acts 7:42
- The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen. Acts 7:44
- Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying: Arise, go towards the south, to the way that goeth down from Jerusalem into Gaza: this is desert. Acts 8:26
- And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert: Acts 13:18
- Art not thou that Egyptian who before these days didst raise a tumult and didst lead forth into the desert four thousand men that were murderers? Acts 21:38
- But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert. 1 Cor. 10:5
- Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert, Heb. 3:8
- And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert? Heb. 3:17
- And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the desert, unto her place, where she is nourished for a time and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. Apoc. 12:14
- And he took me away in spirit into the desert. And I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. Apoc. 17:3
- Where are the benefites, that I haue geuen you? Did you not crie out to me when you were hungrie in the desert, 4 Esd. 1:17
- saying: Why hast thou brought vs into this desert to kil vs? it had bene better for vs to serue the AEgyptians, then to dye in this desert. (Num. 14) 4 Esd. 1:18
- Thus sayth our Lord omnipotent: In the desert when you were thirstie in the riuer of the Amorrheites, and blasphemeing my name, (Ex. 15:25) 4 Esd. 1:22
- And I sayd: First Abraham prayed for the Sodomites, and Moyses for the fathers that sinned in the desert. (Gen. 18/ Ex. 32) 4 Esd. 7:106
- O Lord thou shewing thy selfe to vs, wast shewed to our fathers in the desert, which is not troden, and vnfruitful, when they came out of AEgypt: and saying thou saydst: (Ex. 19 & 24 / Deut. 4) 4 Esd. 9:29
- For thou seest that our sanctification is made desert, and our altar is throwen downe, and our temple is destroyed, 4 Esd. 10:21
- and the dead shal be cast forth as dung, and there shal be none to comfort them. For the earth shal be left desert, and the cities therof shal be throwen downe. 4 Esd. 16:24
- Who hath put fountaines of waters in the desert, and lakes vpon the toppes of mountaines, to send forth riuers from the high rocke to watter the earth. 4 Esd. 16:61