Jeremiah 17:6

He will be like a bush in the desert, and he won't see when good comes. He will dwell in parched places in the wilderness, a land of salt, without inhabitants.

Deuteronomy 29:23

The whole land will be covered with salt pits and burning sulfur, with nothing planted, nothing sprouting, and producing no vegetation overthrown like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, when the LORD overthrew them in his raging fury.

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee, save your lives, and you will be like a wild donkey in the desert.

Job 20:17

He won't look at the rivers the torrents of honey and curd.

Job 39:6

to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?

Judges 9:45

Abimelech fought against the city all that day, captured the city, killed the people in it, then tore the city to the ground and sowed it with salt.

2 Kings 7:2

But the royal attendant on whom the king depended responded to the man of God: "Look here! Even if the LORD were to open a window in the sky, how could this happen?" He replied, "No, you look! You'll see it with your eyes, but you won't eat any of it!"

2 Kings 7:19-20

But the royal attendant on whom the king depended responded to the man of God: "Look here! Even if the LORD were to make a window in the sky, how could this happen?" He replied, "No, you look! You'll see it with your eyes, but you won't eat any of it!"

Job 8:11-13

"Can papyrus grow where there's no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?

Job 15:30-34

He won't escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he'll depart by the breath of God's mouth.

Psalm 1:4

But this is not the case with the wicked. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Psalm 92:7

Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.

Psalm 129:6-8

May they become like a tuft of grass on a roof top, that withers before it takes root

Isaiah 1:30

You'll be like an oak whose leaf is withering, like an unwatered garden.

Ezekiel 47:11

"The river delta will consist of swamps and marshes that will remain a salt water wetland preserve.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore as I'm alive and living," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, "Moab will surely become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a place overrun by weeds and salty marshes, unpopulated forever. The survivors of my people will confiscate their property, and those who remain of my nation will inherit what was theirs.

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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.

General references

Bible References

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Jeremiah 48:6
Flee, save your lives, and you will be like a wild donkey in the desert.
Job 8:11
"Can papyrus grow where there's no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?
Job 15:30
He won't escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he'll depart by the breath of God's mouth.
Psalm 1:4
But this is not the case with the wicked. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
Psalm 92:7
Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.
Psalm 129:6
May they become like a tuft of grass on a roof top, that withers before it takes root
Isaiah 1:30
You'll be like an oak whose leaf is withering, like an unwatered garden.

And shall

2 Kings 7:2
But the royal attendant on whom the king depended responded to the man of God: "Look here! Even if the LORD were to open a window in the sky, how could this happen?" He replied, "No, you look! You'll see it with your eyes, but you won't eat any of it!"
Job 20:17
He won't look at the rivers the torrents of honey and curd.

A salt

Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land will be covered with salt pits and burning sulfur, with nothing planted, nothing sprouting, and producing no vegetation overthrown like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, when the LORD overthrew them in his raging fury.
Judges 9:45
Abimelech fought against the city all that day, captured the city, killed the people in it, then tore the city to the ground and sowed it with salt.
Ezekiel 47:11
"The river delta will consist of swamps and marshes that will remain a salt water wetland preserve.
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore as I'm alive and living," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, "Moab will surely become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a place overrun by weeds and salty marshes, unpopulated forever. The survivors of my people will confiscate their property, and those who remain of my nation will inherit what was theirs.

General references

2 Kings 7:20
And so it happened to him, because the people trampled him in the city gate and he died.
Job 8:12
While they are still green and not yet ready to be harvested, they wither before any plant.
Psalm 118:8
It is better to take shelter in the LORD than to trust in people.

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