I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
Parallel translations
- WEB Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
- KJV Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
- NKJV Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling?
- NASB To whom I gave the wilderness as his home, And the salt land as his dwelling place?
- NLT I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland.
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Quick answer
God gave the wild donkey the wilderness and salt flats as its home. He provides a place even in barren land.
Overview
The LORD describes assigning the wild donkey to the wasteland and salt plains. What seems uninhabitable is its appointed dwelling. The verse highlights God's provision tailored to each creature, in places people would shun.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Job 24:5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
- Deut 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- Jer 17:6He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
- Jer 2:24a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
- Hos 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
- Ezek 47:11But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
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