Jeremiah 17:6

New English Translation

They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

An officer who was the king’s right-hand man responded to the prophet, “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” Elisha said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”

Job 20:17

He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.

Job 39:6

to whom I appointed the steppe for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?

Psalm 1:4

Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.

Psalm 107:34

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

Psalm 92:7

When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

Isaiah 1:30

For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered.

Jeremiah 29:32

Because he has done this,” the Lord says, “I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his whole family. There will not be any of them left to experience the good things that I will do for my people. I, the Lord, affirm it! For he counseled rebellion against the Lord.”’”

Jeremiah 48:6

They will hear, ‘Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!’

Ezekiel 47:11

But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as surely as I live,” says the Lord who commands armies, the God of Israel, “be certain that Moab will become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah. They will be overrun by weeds, filled with salt pits, and permanently desolate. Those of my people who are left will plunder their belongings; those who are left in Judah will take possession of their land.”

Deuteronomy 29:23

The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.

Judges 9:45

Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed all the people in it. Then he leveled the city and spread salt over it.