Jeremiah 17:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.”
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“He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 17:6 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- Judges 9:45And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.
- 2 Kings 7:2But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
- 2 Kings 7:19And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
- Job 8:11Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
- Job 15:30He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
- Job 20:17He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
- Job 39:6I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
- Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- Psalms 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
- Psalms 129:6May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
- Isaiah 1:30For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.
- Jeremiah 48:6‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’
- Ezekiel 47:11But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
- Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
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