1 "The 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; NHEB — Jeremiah 17:1
2 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:2
3 My 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. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:3
4 You, 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 do not know: for you have kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever." NHEB — Jeremiah 17:4
5 Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:5
6 For 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. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:6
7 Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose confidence is in the LORD. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:7
8 For 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. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:8
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? NHEB — Jeremiah 17:9
10 I, the LORD, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:10
11 As 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." NHEB — Jeremiah 17:11
12 "A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:12
13 LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living waters. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:13
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:14
15 Look, they tell me, 'Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now.' NHEB — Jeremiah 17:15
16 As 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. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:16
17 Do not be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:17
18 Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of disaster, and destroy them with double destruction." NHEB — Jeremiah 17:18
19 Thus said the LORD to me: "Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; NHEB — Jeremiah 17:19
20 and tell them, 'Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: NHEB — Jeremiah 17:20
21 Thus says the LORD, "Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; NHEB — Jeremiah 17:21
22 neither 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. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:22
23 But they did not listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:23
24 It shall happen, if you diligently listen to me," says the LORD, "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 in it; NHEB — Jeremiah 17:24
25 then 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 officials, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:25
26 They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to the house of the LORD. NHEB — Jeremiah 17:26
27 But 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 its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched."'" NHEB — Jeremiah 17:27