He taketh: Job 12:20, Job 17:4; Isa 6:9-10, Isa 19:1; Dan 4:16, Dan 4:33; Hos 7:11
and causeth: Psa 107:4, Psa 107:40
in a wilderness: Bethohoo, "in chaos," i.e., in a state of utter confusion; it is the same word which is employed in Gen 1:2, to describe the chaotic state of the earth at the creation.