Quotes about Wilderness
For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
— Isaiah 32:14
Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.
— Isaiah 32:16
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
— Isaiah 34:13
The wilderness and the land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
— Isaiah 35:1
A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
— Isaiah 40:3
I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
— Isaiah 41:19
The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
— Isaiah 43:20
For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
— Isaiah 51:3
who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?
— Isaiah 63:13
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
— Isaiah 64:10
“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
— Jeremiah 2:2
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
— Jeremiah 2:6