Jeremiah 17:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

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  • Deut 29:23 : 23 [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
  • Jer 48:6 : 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
  • Job 20:17 : 17 He shall not look at the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.
  • Job 39:6 : 6 Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.
  • Ps 129:6-8 : 6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up; 7 With which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. 8 Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh."
  • Isa 1:30 : 30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, And as a garden that has no water.
  • Judg 9:45 : 45 Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people who were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? He said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.
  • 2 Kgs 7:19-20 : 19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it: 20 it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.
  • Job 8:11-13 : 11 "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water? 12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed. 13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
  • Job 15:30-34 : 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away. 31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness shall be his reward. 32 It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green. 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree. 34 For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
  • Ezek 47:11 : 11 But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
  • Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

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    7 Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is.

    8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  • 5 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

  • Job 15:28-30
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    28 He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

    29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30 He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

  • 34 And a fruitful land into a salt waste, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

  • Isa 1:29-30
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    29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, And you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

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  • Job 18:16-18
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    16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.

    17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

    18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

  • 9 In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.

  • 17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, Nor fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive fails, The fields yield no food; The flocks are cut off from the fold, And there is no herd in the stalls:

  • 13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, For the fruit of their doings.

  • Isa 6:11-12
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    11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the land becomes utterly waste,

    12 And Yahweh has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

  • 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches of it.

  • 18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth: They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

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    3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

  • 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

  • 34 The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

  • 7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness."

  • 8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: [the enemy] has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he doesn't regard man.

  • 22 For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • 6 For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities which are not inhabited.

  • 43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

  • 8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

  • 13 Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.

  • 11 But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

  • 6 Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

  • 16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • 15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

  • 2 A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

  • 13 On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

  • 15 Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, The breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; And his spring will become dry, And his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.

  • 6 I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, But it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

  • 6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

  • 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

  • 10 He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

  • 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

  • 8 Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.

  • 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.

  • 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

  • 17 He shall not look at the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

  • 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

  • 19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

  • 3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

  • 16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.