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

³⁴ And a fruitful land into a salt waste, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

²³ [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

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

²⁴ a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who 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 comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

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

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.