Verse 6

They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 29:23 : 23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.
  • Jer 48:6 : 6 They will hear,‘Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the wilderness!’
  • Job 20:17 : 17 He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.
  • Job 39:6 : 6 to whom I appointed the arid rift valley for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.
  • Ps 129:6-8 : 6 May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up, 7 which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain! 8 Those who pass by will not say,“May you experience the LORD’s blessing! We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the LORD.
  • Isa 1:30 : 30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered.
  • Judg 9:45 : 45 Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed all the people in it. Then he leveled the city and spread salt over it.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 An officer who was the king’s right-hand man responded to the prophet,“Look, even if the LORD made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” Elisha said,“Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”
  • 2 Kgs 7:19-20 : 19 But the officer replied to the prophet,“Look, even if the LORD made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” Elisha said,“Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!” 20 This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.
  • Job 8:11-13 : 11 Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water? 12 While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass! 13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes,
  • Job 15:30-34 : 30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth. 31 Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward. 32 Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish. 33 Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms. 34 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.
  • Ezek 47:11 : 11 But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.
  • Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel,“be certain that Moab will become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah. They will be overrun by weeds, filled with salt pits, and permanently desolate. Those of my people who are left will plunder their belongings; those who are left in Judah will take possession of their land.”