Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Bible References

A fruitful

Genesis 13:10
Then Lot lift up his eyes, and beheld all the country about Jordan: that it was a plenteous country of water. For, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was round about Zoar, even as the pleasant garden of the LORD, and as the land of Egypt.
Genesis 19:25
and overthrew those cities and all the region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that that grew upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 29:23
how all the land is burnt up with brimstone and salt, that it is neither sown nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, after the overthrowing of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim: which the LORD overthrew in his wrath and anger.
Isaiah 32:13
My people's field shall bring thorns and thistles, for in every house is voluptuousness; and in the cities, willfulness.

Barrenness

Genesis 14:3
All these came together unto the vale of Siddim, which is now the salt sea.
Ezekiel 47:11
As for his clay and pits, they shall not be whole. For why? It shall be occupied for salt.

General references

Genesis 19:25
and overthrew those cities and all the region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that that grew upon the earth.
Isaiah 42:15
I will make waste both mountain and hill, and dry up every green thing that groweth thereon. I will dry up the floods of water, and drink up the rivers.
Jeremiah 5:25
"Nevertheless, your misdeeds have turned these from you, and your sins have robbed you hereof.