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JEREMIAH ยท Chapter 17
17:1 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;
17:2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by
the green trees upon the high hills.
17:3 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.
17:4 And you, even yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that
I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which
you know not: for all of you have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall
burn for ever.
17:5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and
makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
17:6 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,
in a salt land and not inhabited.
17:7 Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the
LORD is.
17:8 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.
17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:
who can know it?
17:10 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.
17:11 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.
17:12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our
sanctuary.
17:13 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.
17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall
be saved: for you are my praise.
17:15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let
it come now.
17:16 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.
17:17 Be not a terror unto me: you are my hope in the day of evil.
17:18 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.
17:19 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;
17:20 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:
17:21 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;
17:22 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.
17:23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their
neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
17:24 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;
17:25 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.
17:26 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.
17:27 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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