Jeremiah 17:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For he shall be like a shrub or a person naked and destitute in the desert; and he shall not see any good come, but shall dwell in the parched places in the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

Common English Bible

⁶ They will be like a desert shrub that doesn’t know when relief comes. They will live in the parched places of the wilderness, in a barren land where no one survives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For he will be like a saltcedar tree in the desert. And he will not perceive it, when what is good has arrived. Instead, he will live in dryness, in a desert, in a land of salt, which is uninhabitable.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert, in a salt land, and not inhabited.

Jeremiah 17:6 Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

Job 20:17

He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

Job 39:6

Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling place.

Psalm 1:4

The wicked are not so; But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away

Psalm 107:34

A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Psalm 92:7

When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Isaiah 1:30

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

Jeremiah 29:32

therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he behold the good that I will do unto my people, saith the LORD: because he hath spoken rebellion against the LORD.

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 47:11

But the miry places thereof, and the marishes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.

Deuteronomy 29:23

and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

Judges 9:45

And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.