Jeremiah 17:6

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Summary

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.

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Isaiah 1:30

And shall

2 Kings 7:2

Job 20:17

A salt

General references

2 Kings 7:20

Job 8:12

Psalm 118:8

Bible References

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Flee, save your lives, and be like the bush in the wilderness.

Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? can the reeds grow without water?

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever:

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:

For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

And shall

Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.

He shall not see the rivers, the brooks flowing with honey and butter.

A salt

And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that were therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

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

Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of weeds, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

General references

And so it happened unto him: for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

While it is yet green, and not cut down, it withers before any other plant.

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.