Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

New American Standard Bible

A fruitful land into a salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

King James Version

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

and a fruitful land into a salty waste, due to the wickedness of its inhabitants.

A Conservative Version

a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

American Standard Version

A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Amplified


A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Darby Translation

A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Julia Smith Translation

A land of fruit to saltness, for the evil of those dwelling in it

King James 2000

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

NET Bible

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

New Heart English Bible

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

The Emphasized Bible

A Land of Fruit, into a waste of salt, For the wickedness of them who dwell therein.

Webster

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

World English Bible

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּרי 
P@riy 
Usage: 119

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

מלחה 
M@lechah 
Usage: 3

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

References

Easton

Fausets

Watsons

Context Readings

Thanksgiving To Yahweh For His Of Deliverance

33 He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land; 34 He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there. 35 He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

Genesis 14:3

All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).

Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

Genesis 19:24-25

Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Deuteronomy 29:23-28

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:

Isaiah 32:13-15

And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

Ezekiel 47:11

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

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