Verse 6

to whom I appointed the arid rift valley for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?

Referenced Verses

• Ps 107:34 : 34 and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
• Jer 2:24 : 24 You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.
• Jer 17:6 : 6 They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.
• Deut 29:23 : 23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.
• Job 24:5 : 5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.
• Ezek 47:11 : 11 But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.
• Hos 8:9 : 9 Israel’s Hired Lovers They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.