⁶ They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

³⁴ He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

²³ And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

⁵ Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

²⁴ An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

⁶ For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

¹¹ The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.