Jeremiah 17:6

God's Word

He will be like a bush in the wilderness. He will not see when something good comes. He will live in the dry places in the desert, in a salty land where no one can live.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

The servant on whose arm the king was leaning answered the man of God, “Could this happen even if the Lord poured rain through windows in the sky?” Elisha replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you won’t eat any of it.”

Job 20:17

He won’t be able to drink from the streams or from the rivers of honey and buttermilk.

Job 39:6

I gave it the desert to live in and the salt flats as its dwelling place.

Psalm 1:4

Wicked people are not like that. Instead, they are like husks that the wind blows away.

Psalm 107:34

and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.

Psalm 92:7

that wicked people sprout like grass and all troublemakers blossom ⌞like flowers⌟, only to be destroyed forever.

Isaiah 1:30

You will be like an oak whose leaves wither and like a garden without water.

Jeremiah 29:32

The Lord says: I will punish Shemaiah from Nehelam. I will also punish his descendants. No one from his family will be left alive. He will not see the blessings that I’m going to send my people, declares the Lord, because he has encouraged rebellion against the Lord.’ ”

Jeremiah 48:6

“Run away! Run for your lives! Run like a wild donkey in the desert.”

Ezekiel 47:11

But the water in the swamps and marshes won’t become fresh. It will remain salty.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, I solemnly swear, as I live,” declares the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, “Moab will become like Sodom, and Ammon will become like Gomorrah: a place of weeds, salt pits, and ruins forever. The faithful few of my people will loot them, and those who are left in my nation will take possession of them.”

Deuteronomy 29:23

They will see all the soil poisoned with sulfur and salt. Nothing will be planted. Nothing will be growing. There will be no plants in sight. It will be as desolate as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, cities the Lord destroyed in fierce anger.

Judges 9:45

Abimelech attacked the city all day long. He captured the city and killed the people in it. He also tore down the city and scattered salt all over the land.