I gave them the dry and empty land as their home. I gave them salt flats to live in.

我使旷野作它的住处，使咸地当它的居所。

我使旷野作它的住处，使盐地当它的居所。

我使旷野作它的住处，使盐地当它的居所。

我使它以旷野为家，以盐地作居所。

我使原野作它的家，使咸地作它的居所。

我使曠野作牠的住處，使鹹地當牠的居所。

我使曠野作牠的住處，使鹽地當牠的居所。

我使曠野作牠的住處，使鹽地當牠的居所。

我使牠以曠野為家，以鹽地作居所。

我使原野作牠的家，使鹹地作牠的居所。

我使原野做牠的住宅，使鹹地當牠的居所。

我使曠野為其室家、鹵地為其居所、

居曠野、處鹵地、

我使曠野為其所處、使鹵地為其居所、

I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat.

to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?

I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland.

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

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

Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling?

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

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

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

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

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

He turned land that produced crops into a salty land where nothing could grow. He did it because the people who lived there were evil.

You are like a wild donkey that lives in the desert. She smells the wind when she longs for a mate. Who can hold her back? The males that run after her do not need to wear themselves out. At mating time they will easily find her.

They will be like a bush in a dry and empty land. They will not enjoy success when it comes. They will live in dry places in the desert. It is a land of salt where no one else lives.

The whole land will be burned up. Nothing but salt and sulfur will be left. Nothing will be planted there. Nothing will grow there. In fact, nothing will even start to grow there. The land will be like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim after they were destroyed. The Lord wiped out those cities because he was very angry.

The poor are like wild donkeys in the desert. They have to go around looking for food. The dry and empty land provides the only food for their children.

They have gone up to Assyria for help. They are like a wild donkey that wanders around by itself. Ephraim’s people have sold themselves to their Assyrian lovers.

But none of the swamps will have fresh water in them. They will stay salty.