Jeremiah 17:6 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 17:6

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.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

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.

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.

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Commentary

5 voices

Basil of Caesarea

THE LONG RULES 42 (379)

A person who relies on himself, however, or even on the person whose duty it is to provide for his needs, and thinks that his own activity or that of his associate is a sufficient resource for his livelihood runs the risk, as he places his hope in humankind, of falling under the curse that reads, "Cursed is the one that trusts in humankind and makes flesh his arm and whose soul departs from the Lord."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

For he shall be like the heath in the desert,.... The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "myrice": and so the Latin interpreter of the Targum; but the word that paraphrase makes use of according to R. Hai, mentioned by Kimchi, signifies something that is thorny without, and eatable within; but this is not likely to be intended here.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Nay, he is false and sinful, and has lost his integrity; so his being flesh signifies, Gen. vi. The great malignity there is in this sin; it is the departure of the evil heart of unbelief from the living God.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Be shall be like the heath in the desert - כערער kearar; or, like a blasted tree, without moisture, parched and withered. Shall not see when good cometh - Shall not be sensible of it: the previous drought having rendered it incapable of absorbing any more vegetable juices. A salt land - Barren; and therefore unfit to be inhabited.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Hab 3:9, the Hebrew is translated, "bare," "naked," "destitute"; but as the parallel in Jer 17:8 is "tree," some plant must be meant of which this is the characteristic epithet (Jer 48:6, Margin), "a naked tree." ROBINSON translates, "the juniper tree," found in the Arabah or Great Valley, here called "the desert," south of the Dead Sea.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהָיָה֙	ve.ha.Yah	and he will be	H1961 →
כְּעַרְעָ֣ר	ke.'ar.'Ar	like a bush	H6176 →
בָּֽעֲרָבָ֔ה	ba.'a.ra.Vah	in the desert plain	H6160 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יִרְאֶ֖ה	yir.'Eh	he will see	H7200 →
כִּי־	ki-	if	H3588 →
יָב֣וֹא	ya.Vo'	it will come	H935 →
ט֑וֹב	Tov	good	H2896 →
וְשָׁכַ֤ן	ve.sha.Khan	and he will dwell	H7931 →
חֲרֵרִים֙	cha.re.Rim	parched places	H2788 →
בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר	ba.mid.Bar	in the wilderness	H4057 →
אֶ֥רֶץ	'E.retz	a land of	H776 →
מְלֵחָ֖ה	me.le.Chah	saltiness	H4420 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
תֵשֵֽׁב׃ ס	te.Shev	anyone dwells	H3427 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 1:4
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
leads to
- Job 21:18
  Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Matthew 3:12
  His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Psalms 35:5
  May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
- Isaiah 17:13
  The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Hosea 13:3
  Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
Through
Deuteronomy 29:23
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the…
leads to
- Zephaniah 2:9
  Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual…
- Isaiah 34:9
  Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
- Genesis 19:24–25
  Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jeremiah