Jeremiah 17:6

New International Version

That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it!”

Job 20:17

He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

Job 39:6

I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat.

Psalm 1:4

Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Psalm 107:34

and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

Psalm 92:7

that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Isaiah 1:30

You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water.

Jeremiah 29:32

this is what the Lord says: I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good things I will do for my people, declares the Lord, because he has preached rebellion against me.’ ”

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee! Run for your lives; become like a bush in the desert.

Ezekiel 47:11

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

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will become like Sodom, the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a wasteland forever. The remnant of my people will plunder them; the survivors of my nation will inherit their land.”

Deuteronomy 29:23

The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.

Judges 9:45

All that day Abimelek pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he destroyed the city and scattered salt over it.