Jeremiah 17:6

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell 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, “If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”

Job 20:17

He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.

Job 39:6

to whom I have given the steppe for his home, and the salt land for his dwelling place?

Psalm 1:4

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

Psalm 107:34

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

Psalm 92:7

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

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: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants; he shall not have any one living among this people to see the good that I will do to my people, says the Lord, for he has talked 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 for ever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”

Deuteronomy 29:23

the whole land brimstone and salt, and a burnt-out waste, unsown, and growing nothing, where no grass can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath —

Judges 9:45

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