Deuteronomy 29:23 describes land burned with salt as judgment — the same symbol of desolation used for these marshes.

Psalm 107:34 describes God turning fruitful land into a salt waste because of evil — the same divine judgment as these marshes left for salt.

Revelation 21:8 lists the lake of fire for the wicked — parallel to the salt marshes as a place of judgment outside the healed city.

In 2 Kings 2:20, salt heals bad water — the opposite of these marshes left salty and unhealed.

In Judges 9:45, Abimelech sows a city with salt as a curse of barrenness — mirroring these salt marshes left as permanent wasteland.

Job 39:6 describes the wild donkey's dwelling as a salt land — a similar image of barren salt terrain.

Jeremiah 17:6 pictures a person dwelling in a salt land, uninhabited — echoing the barren salt marshes left untouched here.

Hebrews 6:4-8 describes land that drinks rain yet bears thorns — analogous to these marshes remaining salty and unfruitful.