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

Like

Flee! Save your life! {For} you must not be like the juniper tree in the desert.

Can papyrus grow tall where [there is] not a marsh? Will reeds flourish without water?

"He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed.

Not so the wicked. Instead, [they are] like the chaff that [the] wind scatters.

When the wicked flourish like grass and all [the] workers of evil blossom, [it is] so they can be destroyed forever.

Let them be like grass on [the] housetops, that withers before it grows up,

For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her.

And shall

Then the officer {on whom the king relied} answered the man of God and said, "Look, [even if] Yahweh [is] making windows in heaven, could this thing happen?" And he said, "Look, you [will be] seeing [it] with your eyes, but you shall not eat from it there."

{He will not enjoy the streams}, [the] torrents of honey and curds.

A salt

'All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, {none of its land will be sown}, and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; [it is] as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.'

Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people that [were] in it; then he broke down the city and sowed it [with] salt.

But its marshes and its swamps will not be cured, for they were given for salt.

"Therefore, as I live"--a declaration of Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel-- "Moab shall be as Sodom, and the {Ammonites} like Gomorrah, a place of weeds and salt pits and a desolation forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remainder of my nation shall possess them."

General references

So it had happened to him; the people trampled him in the gate and he died.

While it [is] in its flower [and] is not plucked, yet it withers {before} all grass.

[It is] better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust in humans.