Parallel Verses

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?

Bible in Basic English

To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-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 wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, 6 To whom I gave the wilderness for a home
And the salt land for his dwelling place?
7 He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.

Cross References

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.

Deuteronomy 29:23

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--

Job 24:5

Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poorgo out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.

Jeremiah 2:24

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.

Jeremiah 17:6

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.

Ezekiel 47:11

But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.

Hosea 8:9

For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.

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