Jeremiah 17:6
For 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.
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7“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose confidence is in the LORD.
Cross References
Judges 9:45Abimelech 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.
2 Kings 7:19and that captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if the LORD made windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”
Job 15:30He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
Job 39:6whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
Psalms 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
Isaiah 1:30For you 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 →