Job 39:6

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I made the wilderness its home and the barren land its dwelling place.

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  • Ps 107:34 : 34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.
  • Jer 2:24 : 24 You are like a wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness, sniffing the wind in her desire. Who can restrain her in her mating season? None of those seeking her will grow weary; in her month, they will find her.
  • Jer 17:6 : 6 They will be like a shrub in the desert, dwelling in a parched place in the wilderness, in a land of salt where no one lives, and will not see when prosperity comes.
  • Deut 29:23 : 23 All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?'
  • Job 24:5 : 5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out for their work diligently seeking prey; the steppe provides food for their children.
  • Ezek 47:11 : 11 But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
  • Hos 8:9 : 9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.

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  • 5 Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the bonds of the onager?

  • Job 39:7-8
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    7 It laughs at the commotion of the city; it does not hear the shouts of the driver.

    8 It searches the mountains for its grazing, pursuing every green thing.

  • 28 he will dwell in desolated cities, in houses no one inhabits, destined to become ruins.

  • 17 Who made the world a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to release his prisoners to their homes?'

  • 6 They will be like a shrub in the desert, dwelling in a parched place in the wilderness, in a land of salt where no one lives, and will not see when prosperity comes.

  • Ps 107:33-36
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    33 He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into parched ground,

    34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.

    35 He turns the desert into pools of water, and a dry land into flowing springs.

    36 There He settles the hungry, and they establish a city to live in.

  • 6 For this is what the LORD says about the house of the king of Judah: Though you are like Gilead to me, like the peak of Lebanon, yet I will surely make you into a wilderness, uninhabited cities.

  • 39 Therefore, desert creatures and hyenas will dwell there, and ostriches will inhabit it. It will never again be inhabited or settled from generation to generation.

  • 26 to water a land where no man lives, an uninhabited desert,

  • 25 Pour out your indignation on them, and let your fierce anger overtake them.

  • 11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 40 He pours out contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

  • 6 For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought the people of Israel up from Egypt, to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent, a tabernacle.

  • 4 They wandered in the wilderness, in a desolate place; they found no way to a city where they could settle.

  • 5 I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of burning heat.

  • 2 And I have built a lofty house for You, a place for You to dwell forever.

  • 5 By my great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth, the people, and the animals that are on it. I give it to anyone I choose.

  • 6 They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and deep darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

  • 11 No foot of man or beast will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.

  • 15 Young lions have roared against him; they have raised their voices. They have turned his land into a desolation; his towns are burned and uninhabited.

  • 5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out for their work diligently seeking prey; the steppe provides food for their children.

  • 6 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling.

  • 43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and barren land where no one lives, and through which no man passes.

  • 5 For I have not lived in a house from the day I brought Israel out until this very day. I have moved from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle.

  • 20 The animals of the field will honor Me— jackals and ostriches—because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people,

  • Jer 25:37-38
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    37 The peaceful pastures will be silent because of the LORD's fierce anger.

    38 Like a lion leaving its lair, He has left His den, for their land has become a desolation because of the oppressor's wrath and the LORD's fierce anger.

  • 24 I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk water there. With the soles of my feet, I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.

  • 15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools.

  • 3 They are gaunt from poverty and hunger; they gnaw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.

  • 14 With kings and counselors of the earth who built ruins for themselves.

  • 6 They dwell in the dry streambeds, in holes in the ground, and among the rocks.

  • 19 To you, Lord, I call, for fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flames have burned all the trees of the field.

  • 14 For the palace will be deserted, the bustling city abandoned; the hill and the watchtower will become wastelands forever—a delight for wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks.

  • 8 But the powerful man owns the land, and the honored man dwells in it.

  • 14 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

  • 15 The guests in my house and my maidservants regard me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

  • 6 I have cut off nations; their corner towers are in ruins. I have laid waste their streets, so that no one passes through. Their cities are destroyed; there is no one left—no inhabitant.

  • 10 The fortified city is desolate, a desert place, abandoned and forsaken like the wilderness. There, calves will graze, lie down, and strip its branches bare.

  • 6 Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights, panting like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.

  • 19 To whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.

  • 7 Surely now, God has worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

  • 12 The LORD will drive the people far away, and the abandonment in the land will be great.

  • 6 He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

  • 8 The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; the Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.

  • 9 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, the Most High, your dwelling place,