Jeremiah 17:6

New Living Translation

They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

The officer assisting the king said to the man of God, “That couldn’t happen even if the Lord opened the windows of heaven!” But Elisha replied, “You will see it happen with your own eyes, but you won’t be able to eat any of it!”

Job 20:17

They will never again enjoy streams of olive oil or rivers of milk and honey.

Job 39:6

I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland.

Psalm 1:4

But not the wicked! They are like worthless chaff, scattered by the wind.

Psalm 107:34

He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.

Psalm 92:7

Though the wicked sprout like weeds and evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Isaiah 1:30

You will be like a great tree with withered leaves, like a garden without water.

Jeremiah 29:32

I will punish him and his family. None of his descendants will see the good things I will do for my people, for he has incited you to rebel against me. I, the Lord, have spoken!’”

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee for your lives! Hide in the wilderness!

Ezekiel 47:11

But the marshes and swamps will not be purified; they will still be salty.

Zephaniah 2:9

Now, as surely as I live,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, “Moab and Ammon will be destroyed— destroyed as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah. Their land will become a place of stinging nettles, salt pits, and eternal desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them and take their land.”

Deuteronomy 29:23

They will exclaim, ‘The whole land is devastated by sulfur and salt. It is a wasteland with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It is like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.’

Judges 9:45

The battle went on all day before Abimelech finally captured the city. He killed the people, leveled the city, and scattered salt all over the ground.