barren land.

Deuteronomy 29:23
All its soil will be a burning waste of brimstone and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

Psalm 107:34
fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

Jeremiah 17:6
He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Ezekiel 47:11
But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.