wilderness

And now she is planted in the wildernesse, in a dry and thirsty ground.

¶ Wherefore I caused them to goe foorth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wildernesse.

1611 marginal noteExod.13.18.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wildernesse: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my iudgements, which if a man doe, hee shall euen liue in them, and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said I would powre out my furie vpon them in the wildernesse, to consume them:

1611 marginal noteExod. 16.28.

1611 marginal noteNumb. 14.29. and 26.65.

Yet also I lifted vp my hand vnto them in the wildernesse, that I would not bring them into the land which I had giuen them, flowing with milke and hony, which is the glory of all lands,

Neuerthelesse, mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of thē in the wildernes.

But I said vnto their children in the wildernesse; Walke ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither obserue their iudgements, nor defile your selues with their idoles.

Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my iudgements to doe them, which if a man doe, hee shall euen liue in them; they polluted my Sabbaths: then I said I would powre out my furie vpon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wildernesse.

I lifted vp mine hand vnto them also in the wildernesse, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countreys;

And I wil bring you into the wildernes of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wildernes of the land of Egypt, so wil I plead with you, saith the LORD God.