Jeremiah 17:6 “He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity…”

Jeremiah 17:6

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.

Bible in Basic English

For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

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Cross references

“like”

Psalm 1:4 Jeremiah 48:6 Job 8:11–13 Job 15:30–34 Psalm 129:6–8 Psalm 92:7

Psalm 1:4 · BSB

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

Jeremiah 48:6 · BSB

‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert. ’

Job 8:11–13 · BSB

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

Job 15:30–34 · BSB

He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.

Psalm 129:6–8 · BSB

May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

Psalm 92:7 · BSB

that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

“and shall”

Job 20:17 2 Kings 7:2 2 Kings 7:19 2 Kings 7:20

Job 20:17 · BSB

He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

2 Kings 7:2 · BSB

But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will…

2 Kings 7:19 · BSB

And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”

2 Kings 7:20 · BSB

And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

“a salt”

Deuteronomy 29:23 Judges 9:45 Zephaniah 2:9 Ezekiel 47:11

Deuteronomy 29:23 · BSB

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce an…

Judges 9:45 · BSB

And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.

Zephaniah 2:9 · BSB

Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My pe…

Ezekiel 47:11 · BSB

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

Also

Job 39:6

Job 39:6 · BSB

I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

7But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.

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