⁶ Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

³⁴ A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

²³ `and that' the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, `and' a burning, `that' it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

⁵ Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness `yieldeth' them bread for their children.

²⁴ a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

¹¹ But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

⁹ For they are gone up to Assyria, `like' a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.