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Want to know what the Bible says about Deserts? Here are 68 Bible verses about Deserts from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Hosea 2:3 NIV
Otherwise I will strip her naked
    and make her as bare as on the day she was born;
I will make her like a desert,
    turn her into a parched land,
    and slay her with thirst.
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Song of Solomon 3:6 NIV
Who is this coming up from the wilderness
    like a column of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and incense
    made from all the spices of the merchant?
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Song of Solomon 8:5 NIV
5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness
    leaning on her beloved?
Under the apple tree I roused you;
    there your mother conceived you,
    there she who was in labor gave you birth.
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Isaiah 35:1 NIV
The desert and the parched land will be glad;
    the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus,
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Isaiah 41:19 NIV
I will put in the desert
    the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive.
I will set junipers in the wasteland,
    the fir and the cypress together,
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Jeremiah 2:31 NIV
“You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord:
“Have I been a desert to Israel
    or a land of great darkness?
Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam;
    we will come to you no more’?
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Jeremiah 12:10-13 NIV
10 Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard
    and trample down my field;
they will turn my pleasant field
    into a desolate wasteland.
11 It will be made a wasteland,
    parched and desolate before me;
the whole land will be laid waste
    because there is no one who cares.
12 Over all the barren heights in the desert
    destroyers will swarm,
for the sword of the Lord will devour
    from one end of the land to the other;
    no one will be safe.
13 They will sow wheat but reap thorns;
    they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.
They will bear the shame of their harvest
    because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”
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Jeremiah 50:12 NIV
your mother will be greatly ashamed;
    she who gave you birth will be disgraced.
She will be the least of the nations—
    a wilderness, a dry land, a desert.
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