Job 30:3 They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. (See NIV)
Psalms 107:4 They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place. (See NIV)
Isaiah 51:3 For the LORD hath comforted Zion; He hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 17:6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land. (See NIV)