Verse 6

For he shall be like the heath in the wildernesse, and shall not see when any good commeth, but shall inhabite the parched places in the wildernesse, in a salt land, and not inhabited.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 29:23 : 23 (For all that land shall burne with brimstone and salt: it shall not be sowen, nor bring forth, nor any grasse shall growe therein, like as in the ouerthrowing of Sodom, and Gomorah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord ouerthrewe in his wrath and in his anger)
  • Jer 48:6 : 6 Flee and saue your liues, and be like vnto the heath in the wildernesse.
  • Job 20:17 : 17 He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.
  • Job 39:6 : 6 (39:9) It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 The wicked are not so, but as the chaffe, which the winde driueth away.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 (When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.
  • Ps 129:6-8 : 6 They shalbe as the grasse on the house tops, which withereth afore it commeth forth. 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither the glainer his lap: 8 Neither they, which go by, say, The blessing of the Lord be vpon you, or, We blesse you in the Name of the Lord.
  • Isa 1:30 : 30 For ye shalbe as an oke, whose leafe fadeth: and as a garden that hath no water.
  • Judg 9:45 : 45 And when Abimelech had fought against the citie all that day, he tooke the citie, and slewe the people that was therein, and destroyed the citie and sowed salt in it.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then a prince, on whose hande the King leaned, answered the man of God, and saide, Though the Lorde would make windowes in the heauen, could this thing come to passe? And he said, Beholde, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof.
  • 2 Kgs 7:19-20 : 19 But the prince had answered the man of God, and saide, Though the Lorde would make windowes in the heauen, coulde it come so to passe? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof. 20 And so it came vnto him: for the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.
  • Job 8:11-13 : 11 Can a rush grow without myre? or can ye grasse growe without water? 12 Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe. 13 So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.
  • Job 15:30-34 : 30 He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth. 31 He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change. 32 His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day. 33 God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre. 34 For the congregation of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes.
  • Ezek 47:11 : 11 But the myrie places thereof, and the marises thereof shall not be wholesome: they shalbe made salt pittes.
  • Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore, as I liue, saith the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall bee as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorah, euen the breeding of nettels and salt pittes, and a perpetuall desolation: the residue of my folke shall spoyle them, and the remnant of my people shall possesse them.