⁶ to which I have given the steppe for its home,
    the salt land for its dwelling place?^(A)

³⁴ a fruitful land into a salty waste,
    because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.^(A)

⁶ They shall be like a shrub in the desert
    and shall not see when relief comes.
They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness,
    in an uninhabited salt land.^(A)

²⁴     a wild ass at home in the wilderness
in her heat sniffing the wind!
    Who can restrain her lust?
None who seek her need weary themselves;
    in her month they will find her.^(A)

⁵ Like wild asses in the desert
    they go out to their toil,
scavenging in the wasteland
    food for their young.^(A)

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria,
    a wild ass wandering alone;
    Ephraim has bargained for lovers.^(A)