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Jeremiah 17
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Judah’s Sin and Its Consequence

17The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron stylus. It is inscribed with a diamond point on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of their altars.H2403H3063H3789H5842H1270H6856H8068H2790H3871H3820H7161H4196
2When their sons remember, they remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside green trees on the high hills.H1121H2142H4196H842H7488H6086H1364H1389
3My mountain in the field, your wealth and your treasures I'll give as spoil; along with your high places as the price of your sin throughout your territory.H2042H7704H5414H2428H214H957H1116H2403H1366
4You will let go of your inheritance which I gave you, and I'll make you serve your enemies in a land that you don't know. For with my anger you have started a fire that will burn forever.H8058H5159H5414H5647H341H776H3045H6919H784H639H3344H5704H5769

Two Ways Contrasted

5This is what the Lord says: "Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind, who makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the Lord.H559H3068H779H1397H982H120H7760H1320H2220H3820H5493H3068
6He will be like a bush in the desert, and he won't see when good comes. He will dwell in parched places in the wilderness, a land of salt, without inhabitants.H6199H6160H7200H2896H935H7931H2788H4057H4420H776H3427
7Blessed is the person who trusts in the Lord, making the Lord his trust.H1288H1397H982H3068H4009H3068
8He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by a stream. He won't fear when the heat comes, and his leaves will be green. In a year of drought he won't be concerned, nor will he stop producing fruit."H6086H8362H4325H7971H8328H3105H7200H2527H935H5929H7488H1672H8141H1226H4185H6213H6529

The Deceitfulness of the Human Heart

9"The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is incurable?who can know it -H3820H6121H605H3045
10I am the Lord who searches the heart, who tests the inner depths to give to each person according to what he deserves, according to the fruit of his deeds.H3068H2713H3820H974H3629H5414H376H1870H6529H4611
11As a partridge gathers together eggs that it didn't lay, so is a person who amasses wealth unjustly. In the middle of his life it will leave him, and in the end he will prove to be a fool.H7124H1716H3205H6213H6239H4941H5800H2677H3117H319H5036

The Lord: The Hope of Israel

12A glorious throne exalted from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.H3519H4791H3678H7223H4725H4720
13Lord, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn aside from you will be written in the dust, because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring of living water.H3068H4723H3478H5800H954H3249H5493H3789H776H5800H3068H4726H2416H4325

The Prophet’s Call for Help and Justice

14Heal me, Lord, and I'll be healed; deliver me, and I'll be delivered, because you are my praise.H7495H3068H7495H3467H3467H8416
15Look, they're saying to me, "Where is the word of the Lord?Let it come about!"H559H1697H3068H935
16I haven't run away from being your shepherd, and I haven't longed for the day of sickness. You know what comes out from my lips, it's open before you.H213H7462H310H183H605H3117H3045H4161H8193H5227H6440
17Don't be a terror to me. You are my refuge in a day of trouble.H4288H4268H3117H7451
18Let those who pursue me be put to shame, but don't put me to shame. Let them be terrified, but don't let me be terrified. Bring the day of judgment on them, and destroy them with double destruction!H954H7291H954H2865H2865H935H3117H7451H7665H4932H7670

A Test Case: Keeping the Sabbath

19The Lord said to me, "Go, stand in the gate of the people, where the kings of Judah come in and go out, and in the other gates of Jerusalem as well.H559H3068H1980H5975H8179H1121H5971H4428H3063H935H3318H8179H3389
20Say to them, 'Kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the residents of Jerusalem entering these gates, hear the word of the Lord.H559H8085H1697H3068H4428H3063H3063H3427H3389H935H8179
21This is what the Lord says: "Be careful! On the Sabbath day, don't carry any load or bring anything through the gates of Jerusalem.H559H3068H8104H5315H5375H4853H7676H3117H935H8179H3389
22Don't bring any load out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor are you to do any work. You are to consecrate the Sabbath day, just as I commanded your ancestors.H3318H4853H1004H7676H3117H6213H4399H6942H7676H3117H6680H1
23But they didn't listen, nor did they pay attention. They were determined not to listen and not to accept instruction.H8085H5186H241H6203H7185H8085H3947H4148
24If you listen to me carefully," declares the Lord, "and don't bring a load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and you consecrate the Sabbath day and don't do any work on it,H8085H8085H5002H3068H935H4853H8179H5892H7676H3117H6942H7676H3117H6213H1115H4399
25then kings and princes, sitting on the throne of David will come through the gates of this city. They, their princes, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem will come riding in chariots and on horses, and this city will be inhabited forever.H935H8179H5892H4428H8269H3427H3678H1732H7392H7393H5483H8269H376H3063H3427H3389H5892H3427H5769
26They'll come from the cities of Judah, from the places around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin, from the Shephelah, from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings, and incense, and bringing thanksgiving offerings to the LORD's temple.H935H5892H3063H5439H3389H776H1144H8219H2022H5045H935H5930H2077H4503H3828H935H8426H1004H3068
27But if you don't listen to me, to consecrate the Sabbath day and not carry any load as you enter the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I'll start a fire in its gates. It will consume the palaces of Jerusalem and won't be extinguished."'"H8085H6942H7676H3117H5375H4853H935H8179H3389H7676H3117H3341H784H8179H398H759H3389H3518


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