Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Parallel translations
- WEB Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
- BSB I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
- 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 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
- Job 24:5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
- Deut 29:23And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
- Jer 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
- Jer 2:24A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
- Hos 8:9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
- Ezek 47:11But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
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