Jeremiah 17:6

Contemporary English Version 1995

They will dry up like a bush in salty desert soil, where nothing can grow.

Cross References

Job 20:17

and never enjoy rivers flowing with milk and honey.

Psalm 1:4

That isn't true of those who are evil— they are like straw blown by the wind.

Deuteronomy 29:23

has become a scorching desert of salt and sulfur, where nothing is planted, nothing sprouts, and nothing grows. It will be as lifeless as the land around the cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, after the Lord became angry and destroyed them.

Jeremiah 48:6

Run for your lives! Head into the desert like a wild donkey.

Job 39:6

I alone help them survive in salty desert sand.

Zephaniah 2:9

And so, I swear by my very life that Moab and Ammon will end up like Sodom and Gomorrah— covered with thornbushes and salt pits forever. Then my people who survive will take their land.

Judges 9:45

He and his troops fought in Shechem all day, until they had killed everyone in town. Then he and his men tore down the houses and buildings and scattered salt everywhere.

Ezekiel 47:11

But the marshes along the shore will remain salty, so that people can use the salt from them.

Isaiah 1:30

You will be like a grove of trees dying in a drought.

Psalm 92:7

Though the wicked sprout and spread like grass, they will be pulled up by their roots.

2 Kings 7:2

The chief officer there with the king replied, “I don't believe it! Even if the Lord sent a rainstorm, it couldn't produce that much grain by tomorrow.” “You will see it happen, but you won't eat any of the food,” Elisha warned him.

Psalm 107:34

flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt.

Jeremiah 29:32

He has even talked you into disobeying me. So I will punish Shemaiah. He and his descendants won't live to see the good things I will do for my people. I, the Lord, have spoken.