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.
KJV
Erit enim quasi myricæ in deserto, et non videbit cum venerit bonum : sed habitabit in siccitate in deserto, in terra salsuginis et inhabitabili.
Vulgate
καὶ ἔσται ὡς ἡ ἀγριομυρίκη ἡ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, οὐκ ὄψεται ὅταν ἔλθῃ τὰ ἀγαθά, καὶ κατασκηνώσει ἐν ἁλίμοις καὶ ἐν ἐρήμῳ, ἐν γῇ ἁλμυρᾷ ἥτις οὐ κατοικεῖται.
LXX
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.
ASV
וְ/הָיָה֙ כְּ/עַרְעָ֣ר בָּֽ/עֲרָבָ֔ה וְ/לֹ֥א יִרְאֶ֖ה כִּי יָב֣וֹא ט֑וֹב וְ/שָׁכַ֤ן חֲרֵרִים֙ בַּ/מִּדְבָּ֔ר אֶ֥רֶץ מְלֵחָ֖ה וְ/לֹ֥א תֵשֵֽׁב
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- Deut 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, whic
- Deut 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, whic
- Jer 29:32 — Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my p
- Jer 48:6 — Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
- Jer 48:6 — Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
- Job 8:11 — Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
- Job 8:12 — Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
- Job 15:30 — He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
- Job 20:17 — He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
- Job 39:6 — Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
- Job 39:6 — Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
- Judg 9:45 — And 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.
- Ps 1:4 — The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
- Ps 129:6 — Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
- Zeph 2:9 — Therefore 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 desol