Jeremiah 17:6

New American Bible - revised edition

He is like a barren bush in the wasteland that enjoys no change of season, But stands in lava beds in the wilderness, a land, salty and uninhabited.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

But the adjutant, upon whose arm the king leaned, answered the man of God, “Even if the Lord were to make windows in heaven, how could this happen?” Elisha said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”

Job 20:17

He shall see no streams of oil, no torrents of honey or milk.

Job 39:6

I have made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

Psalm 1:4

But not so are the wicked, not so! They are like chaff driven by the wind.

Psalm 107:34

Fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its people.

Psalm 92:7

A senseless person cannot know this; a fool cannot comprehend.

Isaiah 1:30

You shall become like a terebinth whose leaves wither, like a garden that has no water.

Jeremiah 29:32

therefore thus says the Lord, I will punish Shemaiah, the Nehelamite, and his descendants. None of them shall dwell among this people to see the good I will do for this people—oracle of the Lord—because he preached rebellion against the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:6

“Flee, save your lives! Be like a wild donkey in the wilderness!”

Ezekiel 47:11

Its marshes and swamps shall not be made fresh, but will be left for salt.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live— oracle of the Lord of hosts— the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, the Ammonites like Gomorrah: A field of weeds, a salt pit, a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, the survivors of my nation dispossess them.

Deuteronomy 29:23

they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?”

Judges 9:45

That entire day Abimelech fought against the city. He captured it, killed the people who were in it, and demolished the city itself, sowing it with salt.