Jeremiah 17:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.

Job 20:17

Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

Job 39:6

To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

Psalm 1:4

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

Psalm 107:34

He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

Psalm 92:7

When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

Isaiah 1:30

For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

Jeremiah 29:32

For this cause the Lord has said, Truly I will send punishment on Shemaiah and on his seed; not a man of his family will have a place among this people, and he will not see the good which I am going to do to my people, says the Lord: because he has said words against the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:6

Go in flight, get away with your lives, and let your faces be turned to Aroer in the Arabah.

Ezekiel 47:11

The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

Zephaniah 2:9

For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

Deuteronomy 29:23

And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

Judges 9:45

And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.