KJV 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.
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Jeremiah 17:6
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.
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BSB 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.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 17
3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, [which] shall burn for ever.
5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
6 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.
7 Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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וְהָיָה֙H1961 · ha.yahto beכְּעַרְעָ֣רH6176 · a.ro.erjuniperבָּֽעֲרָבָ֔הH6160 · a.ra.vahArabahוְלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotיִרְאֶ֖הH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeכִּי־H3588 · kiforיָב֣וֹאH935 · boto come (in): comeט֑וֹבH2896 · tovpleasantוְשָׁכַ֤ןH7931 · sha.khanto dwellחֲרֵרִים֙H2788 · cha.rerparchedבַּמִּדְבָּ֔רH4057 · mid.barmouthאֶ֥רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetמְלֵחָ֖הH4420 · me.le.chahsaltinessוְלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotתֵשֵֽׁב׃ סH3427 · ya.shavto dwell
Cross-references
Job 20:17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.Psalm 1:4The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.Deuteronomy 29:23[And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:Job 39:6Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.Job 8:11-13Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?Jeremiah 48:6Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.Job 15:30-34He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.Psalm 129:6-8Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:Judges 9:45And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.Zephaniah 2:9Therefore [as] I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.Ezekiel 47:11But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.Psalm 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for ever:Isaiah 1:30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.2 Kings 7:19-20And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, [if] the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.2 Kings 7:2Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
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