OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 17:6

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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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Verse 6. Tamaric. A barren shrub, that grows in the driest parts of the wilderness. Challoner.—Harhar denotes some sort ( Bible.) of “useless wood.” Sym. See Calmet. 48:6. Isaiah 17:2.—Salt, like the environs of Sodom, the fruits of which were bad.

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