The Lord’s shout shakes the wilderness, the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the desert!

Yet he brought out his people like sheep; he led them through the wilderness like a flock.

In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the desert.

So he made a solemn vow that he would make them die in the desert,

He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

to the one who led his people through the wilderness, for his loyal love endures,

Look, I will escape to a distant place; I will stay in the wilderness. (Selah)

The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy.

For victory does not come from the east or west, or from the wilderness.

They insulted God, saying, “Is God really able to give us food in the wilderness?

He says, “Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

I am like an owl in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl among the ruins.

He shouted at the Red Sea and it dried up; he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.

They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.

As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness. O God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.