Jeremiah 17:6

Good News Translation

He is like a bush in the desert, which grows in the dry wasteland, on salty ground where nothing else grows. Nothing good ever happens to him.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

The personal attendant of the king said to Elisha, “That can't happen—not even if the Lord himself were to send grain at once!” “You will see it happen, but you won't get to eat any of the food,” Elisha replied.

Job 20:17

They will not live to see rivers of olive oil or streams that flow with milk and honey.

Job 39:6

I gave them the desert to be their home, and let them live on the salt plains.

Psalm 1:4

But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.

Psalm 107:34

He made rich soil become a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

Psalm 92:7

the wicked may grow like weeds, those who do wrong may prosper; yet they will be totally destroyed,

Isaiah 1:30

You will wither like a dying oak, like a garden that no one waters.

Jeremiah 48:6

‘Quick, run for your lives!’ they say. ‘Run like a wild desert donkey!’

Ezekiel 47:11

But the water in the marshes and ponds along the shore will not be made fresh. They will remain there as a source of salt.

Zephaniah 2:9

As surely as I am the living Lord, the God of Israel, I swear that Moab and Ammon are going to be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah. They will become a place of salt pits and everlasting ruin, overgrown with weeds. Those of my people who survive will plunder them and take their land.”

Deuteronomy 29:23

The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed when he was furiously angry.

Judges 9:45

The fighting continued all day long. Abimelech captured the city, killed its people, tore it down, and covered the ground with salt.