Jeremiah:17

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* "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron ; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart , and on the horns of their altars , * while their children remember their altars and their Ashe 'rim , beside every green tree , and on the high hills , * on 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 . * You shall loosen your hand from your heritage which I gave to you , and I will make you serve your enemies in a land which you do not know , for in my anger a fire is kindled which shall burn for ever ." * Thus says the LORD : "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm , whose heart turns away from the LORD . * He is like a shrub in the desert , and shall not see any good come . He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness , in an uninhabited salt land . * "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD , whose trust is the LORD . * He is like a tree planted by water , that sends out its roots by the stream , and does not fear when heat comes , for its leaves remain green , and is not anxious in the year of drought , for it does not cease to bear fruit ." * The heart is deceitful above all things , and desperately corrupt ; who can understand it ? * "I the LORD search the mind and try the heart , to give to every man according to his ways , according to the fruit of his doings ." * Like the partridge that gathers a brood which she did not hatch , so is he who gets riches but not by right ; in the midst of his days they will leave him , and at his end he will be a fool . * A glorious throne set on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary . * O LORD , the hope of Israel , all who forsake thee shall be put to shame ; those who turn away from thee shall be written in the earth , for they have forsaken the LORD , the fountain of living water . * Heal me , O LORD , and I shall be healed ; save me , and I shall be saved ; for thou art my praise . * Behold , they say to me , "Where is the word of the LORD ? Let it come !" * I have not pressed thee to send evil , nor have I desired the day of disaster , thou knowest ; that which came out of my lips was before thy face . * Be not a terror to me ; thou art my refuge in the day of evil . * Let those be put to shame who persecute me , but let me not be put to shame ; let them be dismayed , but let me not be dismayed ; bring upon them the day of evil ; destroy them with double destruction ! * Thus said the LORD to me : "Go and stand in the Benjamin Gate , by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out , and in all the gates of Jerusalem , * and say : `Hear the word of the LORD , you kings of Judah , and all Judah , and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem , who enter by these gates . * Thus says the LORD : Take heed for the sake of your lives , and do not bear a burden on the sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem . * And 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 fathers . * Yet they did not listen or incline their ear , but stiffened their neck , that they might not hear and receive instruction . * "`But 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 , * then 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 princes , the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem ; and this city shall be inhabited for ever . * And people shall come from the cities of Judah and the places round about Jerusalem , from the land of Benjamin , from the Shephe 'lah , from the hill country , and from the Negeb , bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices , cereal offerings and frankincense , and bringing thank offerings to the house of the LORD . * But if you do not listen to me , to keep the sabbath day holy , and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day , then I will kindle a fire in its gates , and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched .'"

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