Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

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.

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 set the wild donkey free?
Who released the swift donkey from its harness?
6 I made the wilderness its home,
and the salty wasteland its dwelling.
7 It scoffs at the noise of the village
and never hears the shouts of a driver.



Cross References

Psalm 107:34

and fruitful land into salty wasteland,
because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Deuteronomy 29:23

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in His fierce anger.

Job 24:5

Like wild donkeys in the desert,
the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;
the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild donkey at home in the wilderness.
She sniffs the wind in the heat of her desire.
Who can control her passion?
All who look for her will not become tired;
they will find her in her mating season.

Jeremiah 17:6

He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.

Ezekiel 47:11

Yet its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be left for salt.

Hosea 8:9

For they have gone up to Assyria
like a wild donkey going off on its own.
Ephraim has paid for love.

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