They will not experience good things even when they happen.
It will be as though they were growing in the desert,
in a salt land where no one can live.
[17:6]1tn This word occurs only here and in Jer 48:6. It has been identified as a kind of juniper, which is a short shrub with minute leaves that look like scales. For a picture and more discussion see Fauna and Flora of the Bible, 131.
