Jeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.
Cross References
Judges 9:45And Abimelech assaulted the city all that day: and took it, and killed the inhabitants thereof, and demolished it, so that he sowed salt in it.
2 Kings 7:19When that lord answered the mall of' God, and said: Although the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven, could this come to pass which thou sayest? And he said to him: Thou shalt see with thy eyes, and shalt not eat thereof.
Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own month.
Job 39:6To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.
Psalms 92:7The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.
Isaiah 1:30When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without 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 →