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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron stylus. It is inscribed with a diamond point on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of their altars. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2When their sons remember, they remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside green trees on the high hills. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3My mountain in the field, your wealth and your treasures I'll give as spoil; along with your high places as the price of your sin throughout your territory. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You will let go of your inheritance which I gave you, and I'll make you serve your enemies in a land that you don't know. For with my anger you have started a fire that will burn forever. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind, who makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He will be like a bush in the desert, and he won't see when good comes. He will dwell in parched places in the wilderness, a land of salt, without inhabitants. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Blessed is the person who trusts in the LORD, making the LORD his trust. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by a stream. He won't fear when the heat comes, and his leaves will be green. In a year of drought he won't be concerned, nor will he stop producing fruit." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is incurable— who can know it? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I am the LORD who searches the heart, who tests the inner depths to give to each person according to what he deserves, according to the fruit of his deeds. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11As a partridge gathers together eggs that it didn't lay, so is a person who amasses wealth unjustly. In the middle of his life it will leave him, and in the end he will prove to be a fool. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12A glorious throne exalted from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13LORD, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn aside from you will be written in the dust, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living water. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Heal me, LORD, and I'll be healed; deliver me, and I'll be delivered, because you are my praise. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Look, they're saying to me, "Where is the message from the LORD? Let it come about!" |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I haven't run away from being your shepherd, and I haven't longed for the day of sickness. You know what comes out from my lips, it's open before you. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Don't be a terror to me. You are my refuge in a day of trouble. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Let those who pursue me be put to shame, but don't put me to shame. Let them be terrified, but don't let me be terrified. Bring the day of judgment on them, and destroy them with double destruction! |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The LORD told me, "Go, stand in the gate of the people, where the kings of Judah come in and go out, and in the other gates of Jerusalem as well. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Say to them, 'Kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the residents of Jerusalem entering these gates, hear this message from the LORD. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21This is what the LORD says: "Be careful! On the Sabbath day, don't carry any load or bring anything through the gates of Jerusalem. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Don't bring any load out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor are you to do any work. You are to consecrate the Sabbath day, just as I commanded your ancestors. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23But they didn't listen, nor did they pay attention. They were determined not to listen and not to accept instruction. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24If you listen to me carefully," declares the LORD, "and don't bring a load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and you consecrate the Sabbath day and don't do any work on it, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25then kings and princes, sitting on the throne of David will come through the gates of this city. They, their princes, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem will come riding in chariots and on horses, and this city will be inhabited forever. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They'll come from the cities of Judah, from the places around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin, from the Shephelah, from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings, and incense, and bringing thanksgiving offerings to the LORD's Temple. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27But if you don't listen to me, to consecrate the Sabbath day and not carry any load as you enter the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I'll start a fire in its gates. It will consume the palaces of Jerusalem and won't be extinguished."'" |
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