⁶ Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,

³⁴ A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

²³ (`with' brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger, and in His fury,) --

⁵ Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.

²⁴ A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her meeting -- who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her.

⁶ And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.

¹¹ Its miry and its marshy places -- they are not healed; to salt they have been given up.

⁹ For they -- they have gone up `to' Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself `is' Ephraim, They have hired lovers!