Verse 11

But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 29:23 : 23 All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?'
  • Rev 22:11 : 11 Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy."
  • Judg 9:45 : 45 Abimelech fought against the city all that day, captured it, killed its inhabitants, tore it down, and sowed it with salt.
  • Ps 107:34 : 34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.
  • Jer 17:6 : 6 They will be like a shrub in the desert, dwelling in a parched place in the wilderness, in a land of salt where no one lives, and will not see when prosperity comes.
  • Mark 9:48-49 : 48 Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. 49 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
  • Heb 6:4-8 : 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, 6 if they fall away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God again for themselves and subjecting Him to public disgrace. 7 For the land that drinks in the rain that often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God. 8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
  • Heb 10:26-31 : 26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severe punishment do you think someone deserves who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, treated as unholy the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, 'Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,' says the Lord. And again, 'The Lord will judge His people.' 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
  • 2 Pet 2:19-22 : 19 They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them. 20 For if, after escaping the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 Of them the true proverb has come true: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, "A sow that is washed returns to wallowing in the mud."
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the detestable, murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.