Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
heath--In Psalms 102:17; Isaiah 32:11; Habakkuk 3:9, the Hebrew is translated, "bare," "naked," "destitute"; but as the parallel in Jeremiah 17:8 is "tree," some plant must be meant of which this is the characteristic epithet (Jeremiah 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. The "heath" was one of the plants, according to PLINY (13.21; 16.26), excluded from religious uses, because it has neither fruit nor seed, and is neither sown nor planted.
not see . . . good-- (Job 20:17).
salt land-- (Deuteronomy 29:23), barren ground.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Jeremiah 17:8
Jeremiah 17:25
Jeremiah 30:18
Jeremiah 48:6
Hebrews 6:7
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