But as for you,<n id="1" /> turn back and head for the desert by the way to the Red Sea.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the desert.

<p class="bodytext">When David heard in the desert that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

<p class="poetry">Look, I will escape to a distant place;p> <p class="poetry">I will stay in the wilderness. (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the hills are clothed with joy.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For victory does not come from the east or west,p> <p class="poetry">or from the wilderness.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">They insulted God, saying,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Is God really able to give us food<n id="2" /> in the wilderness?p>

<p class="poetry">He says,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">like they were that day at Massah<n id="3" /> in the wilderness,<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">I am like an owl<n id="1" /> in the wilderness;p> <p class="poetry">I am like a screech owl<n id="2" /> among the ruins.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He shouted at<n id="1" /> the Red Sea and it dried up;p> <p class="poetry">he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.p>

<p class="poetry">They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road;p> <p class="poetry">they found no city in which to live.p>

<p class="poetry">As for his people,<n id="1" /> he turned<n id="2" /> a desert into a pool of water,p> <p class="poetry">and a dry land into springs of water.p>

<p class="poetry">It is better to live<n id="1" /> in a desert land<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">than with a quarrelsome and easily-provoked<n id="3" /> woman.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Let the desert and dry region be happy;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">let the wilderness<n id="2" /> rejoice and bloom like a lily!p>

and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lord&#8217;sc>s angel<n id="1" /> found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert &#8211; the spring that is along the road to Shur.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran.<n id="1" /> His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.<n id="2" />p>

We must go<n id="1" /> on a three-day journey<n id="2" /> into the desert and sacrifice<n id="3" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> our God, just as he is telling us.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Pharaoh will think<n id="1" /> regarding the Israelites, &#8216;They are wandering around confused<n id="2" /> in the land &#8211; the desert has closed in on them.&#8217;<n id="3" />