He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. {the floods...: or, streaming brooks}

{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:

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

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. {the heath: or, a naked tree}

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

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.

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. {barren...: Heb. salt places}

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.

Therefore {as} I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, {even} the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

Let them be as the grass {upon} the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, {if} the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see {it} with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. {a lord...: Heb. a lord which belonged to the king leaning upon his hand}

And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, {if} the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. {shall not...: or, and that which shall not be healed}

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; {it is} that they shall be destroyed for ever:

{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:

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD. {rebellion: Heb. revolt}

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. {the heath: or, a naked tree}

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. {barren...: Heb. salt places}

Whilst it {is} yet in his greenness, {and} not cut down, it withereth before any {other} herb.

But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. {shall not...: or, and that which shall not be healed}

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. {the floods...: or, streaming brooks}

But that which beareth thorns and briers {is} rejected, and {is} nigh unto cursing; whose end {is} to be burned.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice {told}, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?