Jeremiah 17:6

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

They are like a bush in a desert where no one lives. It is in a hot and dry land. It is in bad soil. That bush does not know about the good things that God can give.

Cross References

Job 20:17

He will never again enjoy so much wealth— rivers flowing with honey and cream.

Psalm 1:4

But the wicked are not like that. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Deuteronomy 29:23

All the land will be useless—destroyed by burning sulfur and covered with salt. The land will have nothing planted in it. Nothing will be growing—not even weeds. The land will be destroyed like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, the cities the Lord destroyed when he was very angry.

Jeremiah 48:6

Run away! Run for your lives! Run away like a weed blowing through the desert.

Job 39:6

I let the wild donkey have the desert for a home. I gave the salt lands to them for a place to live.

Zephaniah 2:9

So, as surely as I am alive, Moab and the people of Ammon will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah. I am the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I promise those countries will be destroyed completely forever. Their land will be overgrown with weeds. It will be like the land covered with salt by the Dead Sea. The survivors of my people will take that land and everything left in it.”

Judges 9:45

Abimelech and his men fought against the city of Shechem all that day. They captured the city of Shechem and killed its people. Then Abimelech tore down the city and threw salt over the ruins.

Ezekiel 47:11

But the swamps and small marshes will not become fresh. They will be left for salt.

Isaiah 1:30

because you will be like an oak tree whose leaves are dying. You will be like a garden dying without water.

Psalm 92:7

The wicked may sprout like grass, and those who do evil may blossom like flowers, but they will be destroyed, never to be seen again.

2 Kings 7:2

Then the officer who was close to the king answered the man of God. The officer said, “Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, this could not happen.” Elisha said, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of that food.”

Psalm 107:34

He made the fertile land become salty, because the people living there did such evil things.

Jeremiah 29:32

Because Shemaiah has done that, this is what the Lord says: I will soon punish Shemaiah, the man from the Nehelam family. I will completely destroy his family, and he will not share in the good things I will do for my people.’” This message is from the Lord. “‘I will punish Shemaiah because he has taught the people to turn against the Lord.’”