Jeremiah 17:6
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.
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In Context
7Blessed is the man who trusts in LORD, and whose trust LORD is.
Cross References
Judges 9:45And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. And he took the city, and killed the people that were in it, and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
2 Kings 7:19And that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shall see it with thine eyes, but shall not eat of it.
Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of [God's] mouth he shall go away.
Job 39:6whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place?
Psalms 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,
Isaiah 1:30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 17:6-12
True and False Confidence; Deceitfulness of the Heart; Unlawful Gains. ( b. c. 605.) 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,… Read the whole commentary →