A land of fruit becomes a salty desert, For the evil of those who dwell in it.
And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of the Yardĕ
But the men of Seḏ
All these joined together in the Valley of Siddim, that is the Salt Sea.
“If you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
O Elohim, when You went out before Your people, When You stepped through the wilderness, Selah.
How long shall the land mourn, and the plants of every field wither? The beasts and birds are consumed, for the evil of those who dwell there, because they said, “He does not see our latter ending.”
‘Your crookednesses have turned these away, and your sins have kept the good from you.
“And you shall say to the people of the land, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and to the land of Yisra’ĕ
“Its swamps and marshes shall not be healed, they shall be given over to salt.