Ezekiel 6:14

desolate, yea, more desolate Rather: desolate and waste (ch. Ezekiel 33:28-29; Ezekiel 35:3) more than the wilderness of Diblah. The comparative "more than," however, is not probable. Moreover a wilderness of Diblah is unknown; Diblathaim besides being in Moab could not be called desert. The construction is difficult, but probably the reading should be: from the wilderness to Riblah, i.e. from south to north. Riblah was situated on the northern border of the country (Numbers 34:11); it is said to be in "the land of Hamath," Jeremiah 52:9; Jeremiah 52:27 (where by the converse substitution of dfor r, LXX. reads Diblah). A few MSS. read Riblah. It must be acknowledged that this way of designating the whole extent of the land from S. to N. is nowhere else employed, the northern limit being usually expressed by "the entering in of Hamath."