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 lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it is all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar,
Genesis 19:25
and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.
Deuteronomy 29:23
(with brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger, and in His fury,) --
Isaiah 32:13
Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,

Barrenness

Genesis 14:3
All these have been joined together unto the valley of Siddim, which is the Salt Sea;
Ezekiel 47:11
Its miry and its marshy places -- they are not healed; to salt they have been given up.

General references

Genesis 19:25
and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.
Isaiah 42:15
I make waste mountains and hills, And all their herbs I dry up, And I have made rivers become isles, And ponds I dry up.
Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.