Jeremiah 17:6

The One Who Trusts In Humankind Contrasted With The One Who Trusts In Yahweh

⁵ This is what the Lord says:

The man who trusts in mankind,
who makes human flesh his strength
and turns his heart from the Lord is cursed.
⁶ He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.
⁷ The man who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence indeed is the Lord, is blessed.

In the Wilderness

In The Desert

Arabah

No

Deuteronomy 29:23

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in His fierce anger.

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee! Save your lives!
Be like a juniper bush in the wilderness.

Job 20:17

He will not enjoy the streams,
the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

Job 39:6

I made the wilderness its home,
and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

Judges 9:45

So Abimelech fought against the city that entire day, captured it, and killed the people who were in it. Then he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.

2 Kings 7:2

Then the captain, the king’s right-hand man, responded to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?”

Elisha announced, “You will in fact see it with your own eyes, but you won’t eat any of it.”

2 Kings 7:19-20

this captain had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” Elisha had said, “You will in fact see it with your own eyes, but you won’t eat any of it.”

Job 8:11-13

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Do reeds flourish without water?

Job 15:30-34

He will not escape from the darkness;
flames will wither his shoots,
and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.

Psalm 1:4

The wicked are not like this;
instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Psalm 92:7

though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be eternally destroyed.

Psalm 129:6-8

Let them be like grass on the rooftops,
which withers before it grows up

Isaiah 1:30

For you will become like an oak
whose leaves are withered,
and like a garden without water.

Ezekiel 47:11

Yet its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be left for salt.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live—
this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Israel—
Moab will be like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—
a place overgrown with weeds,
a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.
The remnant of My people will plunder them;
the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.