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• Here, he changes rivers into desert sand, wells into dry ground; (Psalms 106, 33)

• There, he turns the wilderness into pools of water, desert ground into springs; (Psalms 106, 35)

• but now the same power that shames proud chieftains, and keeps them wandering in a pathless desert, (Psalms 106, 40)

• Deliver us, Lord, from our bondage; our withered hopes, Lord, like some desert water-course renew!✻ (Psalms 125, 4)

• Her sanctuary a desert solitude, her feasts all lament, her sabbaths derided, her greatness brought low! (1 Maccabees 1, 41)

• Many there were that went out into the desert at this time, for love of truth and right; (1 Maccabees 2, 29)

• Not at Jerusalem; Jerusalem lay there, no city but a desert waste, nor any of her sons came and went; her sanctuary defiled, her citadel garrisoned by the alien, she was but a haunt of the Gentiles. Sad days for the men of Jacob; pipe nor harp sounded there now. (1 Maccabees 3, 45)

• Meanwhile Judas Machabaeus and his brother Jonathan had crossed the Jordan, and marched for three days through the desert. (1 Maccabees 5, 24)

• Whereupon Judas and his men suddenly turned aside from their course into the desert of Bosor, and took the city; all its men-folk he put to the sword, and carried off the spoil of it, and burned it to the ground. (1 Maccabees 5, 28)

• but these were greatly daunted when they saw what heavy odds were against them, and began to desert their lines, till no more than eight hundred of them were left. (1 Maccabees 9, 6)

• but of this Jonathan had warning, and took refuge, with his brother Simon and all his company, in the desert of Thecue. It was there, by Asphar pool, they halted; (1 Maccabees 9, 33)

• Then, with Simon and the rest of his following, he removed to Bethbessen, out in the desert, and set about rebuilding it, to make a stronghold for them. (1 Maccabees 9, 62)