'Wilderness' signifies something with little life in it, as described in the internal sense in Luke 1:80 'Wilderness' signifies somewhere there is no good because there is no truth. 'Wilderness,' as in Jeremiah 23:10, signifies the Word when it is adulterated.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 1927)

In Psalm 83:13, this refers to the casting down and subjugation of the hells by the Lord. (Arcana Coelestia 2468; the Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms 333)

333. Internal Meaning of Psalm 83

Combats of the Lord with the hells. (7)

1-5 The hells wish to destroy all things of the church (7)

6-8 The hells that rise up against the Lord are enumerated. (7)

9-11 They will be cast down and subjugated. (7, 8, 1)

12 from the places where they have made seeming heavens for themselves. (7, 8)

13-17 Prayer to the Lord to overthrow them, (7, 8)

18 that it may be known that power belongs to the Lord alone (8, 16)