Jeremiah 17:6

New King James Version

For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, And shall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, In a salt land which is not inhabited.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “Look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” And he said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”

Job 20:17

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

Job 39:6

Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling?

Psalm 1:4

The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Psalm 107:34

A fruitful land into barrenness, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Psalm 92:7

When the wicked spring up like grass, And when all the workers of iniquity flourish, It is that they may be destroyed forever.

Isaiah 1:30

For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades, And as a garden that has no water.

Jeremiah 29:32

therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his family: he shall not have anyone to dwell among this people, nor shall he see the good that I will do for My people, says the Lord, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:6

“Flee, save your lives! And be like the juniper in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 47:11

But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live,” Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Surely Moab shall be like Sodom, And the people of Ammon like Gomorrah— Overrun with weeds and saltpits, And a perpetual desolation. The residue of My people shall plunder them, And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”

Deuteronomy 29:23

‘The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’

Judges 9:45

So Abimelech fought against the city all that day; he took the city and killed the people who were in it; and he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.