1The sin of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] [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;

2Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

3O my mountain in the field, I will give yourⁱ substance [and] all yourⁱ treasures to the spoil (plunder; prey; booty), [and] yourⁱ high places for sin, throughout all yourⁱ borders.

4And youⁱ, even yourself, shall discontinue from yourⁱ heritage that I gave youⁱ; and I will cause youⁱ to serve yourⁱ enemies in the land which youⁱ know not: for you^2f have kindled a fire in my anger, [which] shall burn forever.

5Thus says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Cursed [be] the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

6For he shall be like the heath (small shrub found in open wastelands) 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.

7Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [is] the man that trusts in the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and whose hope the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) is.

8For 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.

9The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

10I the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) search the heart, [I] try the reins (literally, kidneys; figuratively, seat of emotion), even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.

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.

12A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the place of our sanctuary.

13O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the hope of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], all that forsake youⁱ shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the fountain of living waters.

14Heal me, O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for youⁱ [are] my praise.

15Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)? let it come now.

16As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to follow youⁱ: neither have I desired the woeful day; youⁱ know: that which came out of my lips was [right] before youⁱ.

17Be not a terror unto me: youⁱ [are] my hope in the day of evil.

18Let 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.

19Thus said the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; 20And say unto them, Hear you^2f the word of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), you^2f kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], that enter in by these gates: 21Thus says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Shabbat [Rest] day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]; 22Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Shabbat [Rest] day, neither do you^2f any work, but hallow (to approve, commend, accept) you^2f the Shabbat [Rest] day, as I commanded your fathers. 23But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

24And it shall come to pass, if you^2f diligently hearken unto me, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Shabbat [Rest] day, but hallow (to approve, commend, accept) the Shabbat [Rest] day, to do no work in it; 25Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David [beloved], riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: and this city shall remain forever. 26And they shall come from the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and from the places about Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and from the land of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). 27But if you^2f will not hearken unto me to hallow (to approve, commend, accept) the Shabbat [Rest] day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] on the Shabbat [Rest] day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and it shall not be quenched.