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Jeremiah 17:6

FaithDiscouragement and depression

4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

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.

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, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

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BSB
He 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.
KJV
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
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.
DARBY
And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
BLB
And he shall be like a shrub in the desert plain, and he shall not see when good comes, and he shall dwell in the parched places in the desert, [in] a salt land without dweller.
ÅB
Han skal bli som en hjelpeløs mann på den øde mark og ikke få se at det kommer noe godt; men han skal bo på avsvidde steder i ørkenen, i et saltland som ingen bor i.
OTB
En slik person vil være som en busk i ørkenen og vil ikke oppfatte velstand når den kommer. De vil bo på de tørre stedene i ødemarken, i et salt land ubebodd.
B1930
Han skal bli som en hjelpeløs mann på den øde mark og ikke få se at det kommer noget godt; men han skal bo på avsvidde steder i ørkenen, i et saltland som ingen bor i.

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  • Job 20:17

    He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

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  • Psalms 1:4

    The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

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  • Deuteronomy 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, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

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  • Job 39:6

    Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

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  • Jeremiah 48:6

    Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

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  • Job 15:30–34

    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.

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  • Job 8:11–13

    Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

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  • Judges 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.

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