SEV Biblia, Chapter 29:23
(azufre y sal, abrasada toda su tierra; no será sembrada, ni producirá, ni crecerá en ella hierba ninguna, como en la subversión de Sodoma y de Gomorra, de Adma y de Zeboim, que el SEÑOR subvirtió en su furor y en su ira);
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 23. [And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone and salt , [and] burning , etc.] That is, is become exceeding barren, as all such land is where there are sulphureous mines, or salt pits, or burning mountains; not that this would be, or has been the case of the land of Judea in a strict literal sense; only these are expressions made use of to show the barrenness of it, which is its case at this day, not through the nature of its soil being changed, but through the slothfulness of the inhabitants of it; to which time it better agrees than to the time of its falling into the hands of the Chaldeans, who left men in it for husbandmen and vinedressers. Aben Ezra understands this as a prayer to God, that the land might be burnt up; that is, for the sins of the people: [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein ; not being sown, it would bear and produce no corn for men; and not being manured, no grass would spring up for the cattle: and so would be like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboim ; which indeed are, strictly speaking, become a sulphurous and bituminous lake, called the salt sea, and the lake Asphaltites, and where no green grass or corn, or any kind of fruit grow: which the Lord overthrew in his anger and in his wrath the Targum of Jonathan is, “which the Word of the Lord overthrew;” and it was Jehovah, the Word, or Son of God, who rained, from Jehovah the Father, out of heaven, fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah, and the rest of the cities; (see Gill on “ Genesis 19:24”), in which chapter is the history of this fatal overthrow.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-28 - Idolatry would be the ruin of their nation. It is no new thing for God to bring desolating judgments on a people near to him in profession. He never does this without good reason. It concerns us to seek for the reason, that we may give glory to God, and take warning to ourselves Thus the law of Moses leaves sinners under the curse, and rooted out of the Lord's land; but the grace of Christ toward penitent, believin sinners, plants them again in their land; and they shall no more be pulled up, being kept by the power of God.
Original Hebrew
גפרית 1614 ומלח 4417 שׂרפה 8316 כל 3605 ארצה 776 לא 3808 תזרע 2232 ולא 3808 תצמח 6779 ולא 3808 יעלה 5927 בה כל 3605 עשׂב 6212 כמהפכת 4114 סדם 5467 ועמרה 6017 אדמה 126 וצביים 6636 אשׁר 834 הפך 2015 יהוה 3068 באפו 639 ובחמתו׃ 2534
