he showed contempt for their oppressors and made them wander in trackless deserts.

Early the next morning Abraham gave Hagar some food and a leather bag full of water. He put the child on her back and sent her away. She left and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

and sat down about a hundred yards away. She said to herself, "I can't bear to see my child die." While she was sitting there, she began to cry.

Your children will wander in the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last one of you dies.

He led you through that vast and terrifying desert where there were poisonous snakes and scorpions. In that dry and waterless land he made water flow out of solid rock for you.

"He found them wandering through the desert, a desolate, wind-swept wilderness. He protected them and cared for them, as he would protect himself.

He makes their leaders foolish and lets them wander confused and lost;

So my sheep wandered over the high hills and the mountains. They were scattered over the face of the earth, and no one looked for them or tried to find them.

in the same way as shepherds take care of their sheep that were scattered and are brought together again. I will bring them back from all the places where they were scattered on that dark, disastrous day.

The world was not good enough for them! They wandered like refugees in the deserts and hills, living in caves and holes in the ground.

The woman fled to the desert, to a place God had prepared for her, where she will be taken care of for 1, 260 days.