Good News TranslationI gave them the desert to be their home, and let them live on the salt plains.
New Revised Standard Version
to which I have given the steppe for its home, the salt land for its dwelling place?
Contemporary English Version
I alone help them survive in salty desert sand.
New American Bible
I have made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
Douay-Rheims Bible
To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.
barren land.
Deuteronomy 29:23 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:
Psalm 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.
Ezekiel 47:11 But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits.
