The Book of Jeremiah (WEB)
17: 1The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is
engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars; 17:2while their children
remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills. 17:3My mountain in the
field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, and your high places, because of
sin, throughout all your borders. 17:4You, even of yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that
I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don't know: for you
have kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever. 17:5Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man
who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. 17:6For he shall
be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched
places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. 17:7Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh,
and whose trust Yahweh is. 17:8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its
roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be
careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 17:9The heart is deceitful
above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? 17:10I, Yahweh, search the mind, I
try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
17:11As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by
right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool. 17:12A glorious
throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. 17:13Yahweh, the hope of
Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame. Those who depart from me shall be written in
the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters. 17:14Heal me, O
Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise. 17:15Behold,
they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now. 17:16As for me, I have not hurried
from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which
came out of my lips was before your face. 17:17Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day
of evil. 17:18Let them be put to shame who persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be
dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with
double destruction. 17:19Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the
people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of
Jerusalem; 17:20and tell them, Hear you the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: 17:21Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to
yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
17:22neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day holy, neither do any work:
but make the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. 17:23But they didn't listen, neither turn
their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
17:24It shall happen, if you diligently listen to me, says Yahweh, to bring in no burden through the
gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;
17:25then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of
David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever. 17:26They shall come from the cities of
Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the
lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices,
and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to the house of
Yahweh. 17:27But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a
burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the
gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
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