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.

Like

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 heath in the wilderness.

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?

He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

And shall

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

A salt

and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah 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 he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

Therefore as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.

General references

it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

It is better to take refuge in Jehovah Than to put confidence in man.