Jeremiah 17:6

New Century Version

They are like a bush in a desert that grows in a land where no one lives, a hot and dry land with bad soil. They don’t know about the good things God can give.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

Then the officer who was close to the king answered Elisha, “Even if the Lord opened windows in the sky, that couldn’t happen.” Elisha said, “You will see it with your eyes, but you will not eat any of it.”

Job 20:17

They will not admire the sparkling streams or the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

Job 39:6

I am the one who gave the donkey the desert as its home; I gave it the desert lands as a place to live.

Psalm 1:4

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

Psalm 107:34

He made fertile land salty, because the people there did evil.

Psalm 92:7

Wicked people grow like the grass. Evil people seem to do well, but they will be destroyed forever.

Isaiah 1:30

You will be like an oak whose leaves are dying or like a garden without water.

Jeremiah 29:32

So the Lord says, I will soon punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his family. He will not see the good things I will do for my people, says the Lord. None of his family will be left alive among the people, because he has taught the people to turn against me.’ ”

Jeremiah 48:6

Run! Run for your lives! Go like a bush being blown through the desert.

Ezekiel 47:11

But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

Zephaniah 2:9

So the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says, “As surely as I live, Moab will be destroyed like Sodom, and Ammon will be destroyed like Gomorrah— a heap of weeds, a pit of salt, and a ruin forever. Those of my people who are left alive will take whatever they want from them; those who are left from my nation will take their land.”

Deuteronomy 29:23

“The land is nothing but burning cinders and salt. Nothing is planted, nothing grows, and nothing blooms. It is like Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed because he was very angry.”

Judges 9:45

Abimelech and his men fought the city of Shechem all day until they captured it and killed its people. Then he tore it down and threw salt over the ruins.