Jeremiah 17:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They shall be like a shrub in the desert and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:2

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, “Even if the Lord were to make windows in the sky, could such a thing happen?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat from it.”

Job 20:17

They will not look on the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.

Job 39:6

to which I have given the steppe for its home, the salt land for its dwelling place?

Psalm 1:4

The wicked are not so but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Psalm 92:7

though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever,

Isaiah 1:30

For you shall be like an oak whose leaf withers and like a garden without water.

Jeremiah 29:32

therefore thus says the Lord: I am going to punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants; he shall not have anyone living among this people to see the good that I am going to do to my people, says the Lord, for he has spoken rebellion against the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee! Save yourselves! Be like a wild ass in the desert!

Ezekiel 47:11

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

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.

Deuteronomy 29:23

all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger—

Judges 9:45

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