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Jeremiah 17:6
Jeremiah 17:6 is verse 6 of Jeremiah chapter 17, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
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.
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Jeremiah 17:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”
5 This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
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.
7 But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
8 He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jeremiah 48:6‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’
Job 8:11Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
Job 8:12While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
Job 8:13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
Job 15:30He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
Job 15:31Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
Job 15:32It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
Job 15:33He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
Job 15:34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
Psalms 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
Psalms 129:6May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
Psalms 129:7unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.
Psalms 129:8May none who pass by say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”
Isaiah 1:30For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.
2 Kings 7:2But 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 not eat any of it.”
2 Kings 7:19And 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 7:20And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.
Job 20:17He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
Deuteronomy 29:23All 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 anger.
Judges 9:45And 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.
Ezekiel 47:11But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, 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 people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”