Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Bible References

A fruitful

Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it [was] well-watered land--[this was] before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah--like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt {in the direction of} Zoar.
Genesis 19:25
And he overthrew those cities and the whole plain, and the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground.
Deuteronomy 29:23
'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.'
Isaiah 32:13
over the soil of my people. It goes up [in] thorns [and] briers, indeed over all of [the] houses of joy [in the] jubilant city.

Barrenness

Genesis 14:3
All these joined forces at the valley of Siddim (that [is], the sea of the salt).
Ezekiel 47:11
But its marshes and its swamps will not be cured, for they were given for salt.

General references

Genesis 19:25
And he overthrew those cities and the whole plain, and the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground.
Isaiah 42:15
I will cause mountains and hills to dry up, and I will cause all their herbage to wither; and I will make rivers like islands, and I will cause pools to dry up.
Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have disturbed these, and your sins have kept away the good from you.