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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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Jeremiah 48:6
Flee, save your lives,
That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
Job 8:11
“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh?
Can the rushes grow without water?
Job 15:30
“He will not escape from darkness;
The flame will wither his shoots,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
Psalm 92:7
That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.
Psalm 129:6
Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up;
Isaiah 1:30
For you will be like an oak whose leaf fades away
Or as a garden that has no water.

And shall

2 Kings 7:2
The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning answered the man of God and said, “Behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” Then he said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat of it.”
Job 20:17
“He does not look at the streams,
The rivers flowing with honey and curds.

A salt

Deuteronomy 29:23
‘All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’
Judges 9:45
Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people who were in it; then he razed the city and sowed it with salt.
Ezekiel 47:11
But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
Zephaniah 2:9
“Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel,
“Surely Moab will be like Sodom
And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah—
A place possessed by nettles and salt pits,
And a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of My people will plunder them
And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”

General references

2 Kings 7:20
And so it happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died.
Job 8:12
“While it is still green and not cut down,
Yet it withers before any other plant.
Psalm 118:8
It is better to take refuge in the Lord
Than to trust in man.