מִדבָּר

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.