More desolate than] RV 'waste, from.' The wilderness toward Diblath] RV 'Diblah.' Diblath, or Diblathaim, was in Moab, beyond the Dead Sea (Numbers 33:46; Jeremiah 48:22). The phrase in AV would mean the wilderness of Judæa, which lay in that direction (eastwards) from Jerusalem. Another and more probable reading is 'Riblah 'instead of 'Diblah.' Riblah was a city of Hamath in the far north (2 Kings 25:21). 'From the wilderness to Riblah' would mean 'from one end of the land to the other.'

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