Jeremiah 17:6

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

And one of the leaders, upon whose hand the king leaned, responding to the man of God, said, "Even if the Lord will open the floodgates of heaven, how can what you say possibly be?" And he said, "You will see it with your own eyes, and you will not eat from it."

Job 20:17

(May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)

Job 39:6

I have given a house in solitude to him, and his tabernacle is in the salted land.

Psalm 1:4

Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth.

Psalm 92:7

Your testimonies have been made exceedingly trustworthy. Sanctity befits your house, O Lord, with length of days.

Isaiah 1:30

when you were like an oak with falling leaves, and like a garden without water.

Jeremiah 29:32

For this reason, thus says the Lord: Behold, I will visit upon Shemaiah of Nehelam, and upon his offspring. There will not be, for him, even one man sitting in the midst of this people. And he will not see the good that I will accomplish for my people, says the Lord. For he has spoken a betrayal against the Lord."

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee, save your lives! And you shall be like a saltcedar tree in the desert.

Ezekiel 47:11

But on its shore and in the marshes, they will not be healed. For these will be made into salt pits.

Zephaniah 2:9

Because of this, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab will be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, like the dryness of thorns, and piles of salt, and a desert, all the way to eternity. The remnant of my people will despoil them, and the residue of my nation will possess them.

Deuteronomy 29:23

having burned it with sulphur and molten salt, so that it can no longer be sown. And certainly no greenery would spring up, as in the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overturned with his wrath and fury.

Judges 9:45

Now Abimelech assaulted the city all that day. And he seized it, and he killed its inhabitants, and he destroyed it, so much so that he scattered salt in it.