Jeremiah 17:6

WEB

⁶For 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.

KJV

⁶For 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.

BSB

⁶He 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.

FBV

⁶They will be like a shrub alone in the desert that isn't even aware when good things happen. It just goes on living in the dry desert, in a salt flat that's uninhabited.

Extra References

Job 20:17

¹⁷He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

²³that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

Psalms 1:4

⁴The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Job 8:11-13

¹¹“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water? ¹²While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed. ¹³So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

Job 15:30-34

³⁰He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth. ³¹Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward. ³²It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green. ³³He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree. ³⁴For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

Job 39:6

⁶whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

Jeremiah 48:6

⁶Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.

Zephaniah 2:9

⁹Therefore, as I live, says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

Psalms 129:6-8

⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, ⁷with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. ⁸Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the LORD’s name.”

Judges 9:45

⁴⁵Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.