Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

New American Standard Bible

To whom I gave the wilderness for a home
And the salt land for his dwelling place?

King James Version

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Holman Bible

I made the wilderness its home,
and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

International Standard Version

to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?

A Conservative Version

whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place?

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


To whom I gave the wilderness as his home
And the salt land as his dwelling place?

Darby Translation

Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?

Julia Smith Translation

To whom did I set the desert his house, and the salt land his dwellings?

King James 2000

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[to] which I have given [the] wilderness [as] its house and [the] salt flat [as] its dwelling place?

Modern King James verseion

to whom I have assigned the wilderness for its home, and the salt land for its dwellings?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Unto whom I have given the wilderness to be their house, and the untilled land to be their dwelling place:

NET Bible

to whom I appointed the steppe for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?

New Heart English Bible

Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

The Emphasized Bible

Whose house I have made the waste plain, and his dwellings, the land of salt:

Webster

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

World English Bible

Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

ערבה 
`arabah 
Usage: 61

and the barren
מלחה 
M@lechah 
Usage: 3

References

Easton

Ass

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

The Wild Donkey

5 Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast? 6 To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place. 7 He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

Cross References

Psalm 107:34

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

Deuteronomy 29:23

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:

Job 24:5

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.

Jeremiah 2:24

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.

Jeremiah 17:6

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.

Ezekiel 47:11

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

Hosea 8:9

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

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