6 I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
Job 39:6
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Job 30:2–4
2 What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them? 3 Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night. 4 They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
Job 15:27–29
27 Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh, 28 he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble. 29 He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.
Psalms 107:34–36
34 and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers. 35 He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs. 36 He causes the hungry to settle there, that they may establish a city in which to dwell.
Jeremiah 17:5–7
5 This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD. 6 He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the d…
Job 39:27–29
27 Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high? 28 He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag. 29 From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.
Hosea 13:4–6
4 Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me. 5 I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. 6 When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became…
2 Esdras 6:50–52
50 You separated the one from the other; for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both. (WEB) 51 To Behemoth, you gave one part, which was dried up on the third day, that he should dwell in it, in which are a thousand hills; (WEB) 52 … (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 11:1–3
1 Wisdom prospered their works in the hand of a holy prophet. (WEB) 2 They traveled through a desert without inhabitant, and they pitched their tents in trackless regions. (WEB) 3 They withstood enemies and repelled foes. (WEB)
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