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Jeremiah 17
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Judah’s Sin and Punishment

17The sin of Judah is written with an iron pen; with a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts, and on the horns of their altars,H2403H3063H3789H5842H1270H6856H8068H2790H3871H3820H7161H4196 2while their children remember their altars and their sacred poles, beside every green tree, and on the high hills,H1121H2142H4196H842H7488H6086H1364H1389 3on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your sin throughout all your territory.H2042H7704H5414H2428H214H957H1116H2403H1366 4By your own act you shall lose the heritage that I gave you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.H8058H5159H5414H5647H341H776H3045H6919H784H639H3344H5704H5769 5Thus says the LORD: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the LORD.H559H3068H779H1397H982H120H7760H1320H2220H3820H5493H3068 6They shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.H6199H6160H7200H2896H935H7931H2788H4057H4420H776H3427 7Blessed are those who trust in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.H1288H1397H982H3068H4009H3068 8They shall be like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots by the stream. It shall not fear when heat comes, and its leaves shall stay green; in the year of drought it is not anxious, and it does not cease to bear fruit.H6086H8362H4325H7971H8328H3105H7200H2527H935H5929H7488H1672H8141H1226H4185H6213H6529 9The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse—who can understand it?H3820H6121H605H3045 10I the LORD test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings.H3068H2713H3820H974H3629H5414H376H1870H6529H4611 11Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in mid-life it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.H7124H1716H3205H6213H6239H4941H5800H2677H3117H319H5036 12O glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, shrine of our sanctuary!H3519H4791H3678H7223H4725H4720 13O hope of Israel! O LORD! All who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be recorded in the underworld, for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, the LORD.H3068H4723H3478H5800H954H3249H5493H3789H776H5800H3068H4726H2416H4325

Jeremiah Prays for Vindication

14Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved; for you are my praise.H7495H3068H7495H3467H3467H8416 15See how they say to me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come!"H559H1697H3068H935 16But I have not run away from being a shepherd in your service, nor have I desired the fatal day. You know what came from my lips; it was before your face.H213H7462H310H183H605H3117H3045H4161H8193H5227H6440 17Do not become a terror to me; you are my refuge in the day of disaster;H4288H4268H3117H7451 18Let my persecutors be shamed, but do not let me be shamed; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction!H954H7291H954H2865H2865H935H3117H7451H7665H4932H7670

Hallow the Sabbath Day

19Thus said the LORD to me: Go and stand in the People's Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem,H559H3068H1980H5975H8179H1121H5971H4428H3063H935H3318H8179H3389 20and say to them: Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates.H559H8085H1697H3068H4428H3063H3063H3427H3389H935H8179 21Thus says the LORD: For the sake of your lives, take care that you do not bear a burden on the sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.H559H3068H8104H5315H5375H4853H7676H3117H935H8179H3389 22And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the sabbath or do any work, but keep the sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.H3318H4853H1004H7676H3117H6213H4399H6942H7676H3117H6680H1 23Yet they did not listen or incline their ear; they stiffened their necks and would not hear or receive instruction.H8085H5186H241H6203H7185H8085H3947H4148 24But if you listen to me, says the LORD, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but keep the sabbath day holy and do no work on it,H8085H8085H5002H3068H935H4853H8179H5892H7676H3117H6942H7676H3117H6213H1115H4399 25then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall be inhabited forever.H935H8179H5892H4428H8269H3427H3678H1732H7392H7393H5483H8269H376H3063H3427H3389H5892H3427H5769 26And people shall come from the towns of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the Shephelah, from the hill country, and from the Negeb, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the LORD.H935H5892H3063H5439H3389H776H1144H8219H2022H5045H935H5930H2077H4503H3828H935H8426H1004H3068 27But if you do not listen to me, to keep the sabbath day holy, and to carry in no burden through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates; it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.H8085H6942H7676H3117H5375H4853H935H8179H3389H7676H3117H3341H784H8179H398H759H3389H3518


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