Berean Standard Bible
“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.”
Jeremiah 17 contrasts two ways of living: trusting in human strength or trusting in the Lord. The contrast is drawn in poetry that uses images of plants in desert and well-watered ground.
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Berean Standard Bible (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.
World English Bible (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.
King James Version (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.
American Standard Version (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.
Bible in Basic English (BBE)
For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
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Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)
Pues será como la retama en el desierto, y no verá cuando viniere el bien; sino que morará en las securas en el desierto, en tierra despoblada y deshabitada.
Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)
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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)
Es como si fuera sólo un raquítico arbusto del desierto, sin esperanza para el futuro, sólo a duras penas sobreviviendo en la planicie salitrosa de un inhóspito desierto; la prosperidad lo abandonó para siempre.
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