to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?
a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath—
For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.
But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.
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