In Genesis 21:14, this signifies the state of wandering in the beginning, of people who have been introduced into the doctrinals of faith. (Arcana Coelestia 2679)
Jeremiah 23:10
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For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
