A fruitful land - Hebrew, A land of fruit. That is, a land that would produce abundance. The word “fruit” here is not used in the l…

Barrenness. —Better, a salt marsh, as in Septuagint and Vulgate .

Listen to this, you who are men of understanding. God can soon take away from any people the privileges which they no longer prize. He sent barrenn…

A fruitful land into barrenness
Or, "into saltness" ^F20 ; as Sodom and the land adjacent became a salt se…

What surprising changes are often made in human affairs! The present desolate state of Judea, and of other countries, explains this. If we look out…