Jeremiah:17

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* The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron , and with the point of a diamond : it is graven upon the table of their heart , and upon the horns of your altars ; * Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills . * O my mountain in the field , I will give your substance and all your treasures to the spoil , and your high places for sin , throughout all your borders . * And you , even yourself , shall discontinue from yours heritage that I gave you ; and I will cause you to serve yours enemies in the land which you know not : for all of you have kindled a fire in mine anger , which shall burn for ever . * Thus says the LORD ; Cursed be the man that trusts in man , and makes flesh his arm , and whose heart departs from the LORD . * 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 , in a salt land and not inhabited . * Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD , and whose hope the LORD is . * For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters , and that spreads out her roots by the river , and shall not see when heat comes , but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought , neither shall cease from yielding fruit . * The heart is deceitful above all things , and desperately wicked : who can know it ? * I the LORD search the heart , I try the reins , even to give every man according to his ways , and according to the fruit of his doings . * As the partridge sits on eggs , and hatches them not ; so he that gets riches , and not by right , shall leave them in the midst of his days , and at his end shall be a fool . * A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary . * O LORD , the hope of Israel , all that forsake you shall be ashamed , and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth , because they have forsaken the LORD , the fountain of living waters . * Heal me , O LORD , and I shall be healed ; save me , and I shall be saved : for you are my praise . * Behold , they say unto me , Where is the word of the LORD ? let it come now . * As for me , I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow you : neither have I desired the woeful day ; you know : that which came out of my lips was right before you . * Be not a terror unto me : you are my hope in the day of evil . * Let them be confounded that persecute me , but let not me be confounded : let them be dismayed , but let not me be dismayed : bring upon them the day of evil , and destroy them with double destruction . * Thus said the LORD unto me ; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people , whereby the kings of Judah come in , and by the which they go out , and in all the gates of Jerusalem ; * And say unto them , Hear all of you the word of the LORD , all of you kings of Judah , and all Judah , and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem , that enter in by these gates : * Thus says the LORD ; Take heed to yourselves , and bear no burden on the sabbath day , nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem ; * Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day , neither do all of you any work , but hallow all of you the sabbath day , as I commanded your fathers . * But they obeyed not , neither inclined their ear , but made their neck stiff , that they might not hear , nor receive instruction . * And it shall come to pass , if all of you diligently hearken unto me , says the LORD , to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day , but hallow the sabbath day , to do no work therein ; * Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon 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 remain for ever . * And they shall come from the cities of Judah , and from the places about Jerusalem , and from the land of Benjamin , and from the plain , and from the mountains , and from the south , bringing burnt offerings , and sacrifices , and food offerings , and incense , and bringing sacrifices of praise , unto the house of the LORD . * But if all of you will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day , and not to bear a burden , even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day ; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof , and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem , and it shall not be quenched .

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