Job 39:6
I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
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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.
[ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE WILD ASS AS CHRIST - continued] To Whom I have given a house in the solitude, and His tabernacle in the land of saltness. 68. For in the Gentile world, in which there was no Patriarch, no Prophet, there was hardly a man to exercise his reason to gain a knowledge of God. Of this solitude it is said by Isaiah; The desert and the pathless land shall rejoice, and the solitude shall exult and blossom as the lily. [Is.
Whose house - Habitation, or place of resort. The barren land - מלחה melechah, the salt land, or salt places, as in the margin. See above.
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Jeremiah 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.
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He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
All 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…
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
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Deuteronomy 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…
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Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual…
He 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.
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Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
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And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was…
The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
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Jeremiah 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…
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Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”