⁶ I gave it the wasteland^(A) as its home,
    the salt flats^(B) as its habitat.^(C)

³⁴ and fruitful land into a salt waste,^(A)
    because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

⁶ That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;
    they will not see prosperity when it comes.
They will dwell in the parched places^(A) of the desert,
    in a salt^(B) land where no one lives.

²⁴ a wild donkey^(A) accustomed to the desert,^(B)
    sniffing the wind in her craving—
    in her heat who can restrain her?
Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves;
    at mating time they will find her.

⁵ Like wild donkeys^(A) in the desert,
    the poor go about their labor^(B) of foraging food;
    the wasteland^(C) provides food for their children.

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria^(A)
    like a wild donkey^(B) wandering alone.
    Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.^(C)