'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.

(რეკომენდაციები: Arcana Coelestia 1927)

47. Internal Meaning of Isaiah, Chapter 47

Of those who adulterate good and profane truth, who are meant by Babel [or Babylon]. (8, 15)

1 These no longer have dominion. (8, 15, 17)

2 They may frame falsities of faith and evils of love; but these will be destroyed until they are not, (8, 15)

4 by the Lord. (8, 15)

5 Those who profane will be thrust down. (8, 15)

6 These falsities and evils have invaded the church and perverted it. (3)

7 They believe that they have dominion over all men, (8, 15, 3)

8-9 and that their dominion will not cease, by reason of the heinous inventions of worship in which they trust. (8, 15)

10-11 They will be utterly destroyed, because they have exalted themselves above all in the world. (8, 15)

12-15 All the fictions and inventions of worship will avail nothing, because they will be cast down into hell. (8, 15, 15)