Jeremiah:17

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* Jehovah says : Judah 's sin is written with an iron pen . It is engraved with a diamond point on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns of their altars . * Even their children remember their altars and their poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah beside large trees on high hills * and on mountains in the open country . I will turn your wealth and all your treasures into loot . I will do this because of your worship sites and your sin throughout all your territory . * You will lose the inheritance that I gave you . I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you have not heard of . I will do this because you have stirred up the fire of my anger . It will burn for a very long time . * This is what Jehovah says : »Cursed is the person who trusts humans , who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah . * »He will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes . He will live in stony wastes in the wilderness , a land of salt without inhabitant . * »Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah , whose refuge and security is Jehovah . * »For he will be like a tree planted by the water . It extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes . Its leaves will be green . It will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit . * »The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately corrupt . Who can understand it ? * »I , Jehovah , search the heart and examine the mind . I give to each man according to his ways , according to the results of his deeds . * »A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay . During his lifetime , he will lose his wealth . In the end , he will be a wicked fool .« * From the very beginning our sanctuary was a glorious throne on high . * You will put to shame all that forsake you , O Jehovah , the hope of Israel . Those who turn away on earth will be written down , for they have forsaken Jehovah , the fountain of living water . * Heal me , O Jehovah , and I will be healed ! Save me and I will be saved ! For you are my song of praise . * Look , they keep saying to me : Where is the word of Jehovah ? Let it come now ! * I have not hurried away from being your shepherd . I have not longed for the day of destruction . You know what I used to say . * Do not cause me fear and anxiety . For you are my refuge in the day of disaster . * Let those who persecute me be put to shame . Do not let me be put to shame . Let them be dismayed , but let me not be dismayed . Bring on them a day of disaster . Crush them with twofold destruction ! * Jehovah said to me : »Go and stand in the public gate , through which the kings of Judah come in and go out , as well as in all the gates of Jerusalem . * Say to them : »Listen to the word of Jehovah , kings of Judah , and all Judah and all inhabitants of Jerusalem who come in through these gates : * »Jehovah says : ‘Take heed for yourselves , and do not carry any load on the Sabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem . * »You shall not bring a load out of your houses on the Sabbath day nor do any work . You should keep the Sabbath day holy , as I commanded your forefathers . * »Yet they did not listen or incline their ears . They stiffened their necks in order not to listen or take correction . * »But it will come about , if you listen attentively to me , declares Jehovah , to bring no load in through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day , but to keep the Sabbath day holy by doing no work on it , * then there will come in through the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David . They will ride in chariots and on horses , they and their princes , the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem . This city will be inhabited for a very long time . * »They will come in from the cities of Judah and from the environs of Jerusalem , from the land of Benjamin , from the lowland , from the hill country and from the Negev . They will bring burnt offerings , sacrifices , grain offerings and incense . They will also bring sacrifices of thanksgiving to the house of Jehovah . * »If you do not listen to me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load and coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day , then I will kindle a fire in its gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem . And it will not be quenched .« ’«

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