| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The sin of Judah is written down with an iron stylus; With a diamond point it is engraved upon the tablet of their heart And on the horns of their altars, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2As they remember their children, So they remember their altars and their Asherim By green trees on the high hills. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3O mountain of Mine in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures for booty, Your high places for sin throughout your borders. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And you will, even of yourself, let go of your inheritance That I gave you; And I will make you serve your enemies In the land which you do not know; For you have kindled a fire in My anger Which will burn forever. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Thus says the LORD, "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind And makes flesh his strength, And whose heart turns away from the LORD. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"For he will be like a bush in the desert And will not see when prosperity comes, But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, A land of salt without inhabitant. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD And whose trust is the LORD. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"For he will be like a tree planted by the water, That extends its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought Nor cease to yield fruit. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly; In the midst of his days it will forsake him, And in the end he will be a fool." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12A glorious throne on high from the beginning Is the place of our sanctuary. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You will be put to shame. Those who turn away on earth will be written down, Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, even the LORD. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; Save me and I will be saved, For You are my praise. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Look, they keep saying to me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!" |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But as for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You, Nor have I longed for the woeful day; You Yourself know that the utterance of my lips Was in Your presence. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Do not be a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, let me not be put to shame; Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed. Bring on them a day of disaster, And crush them with twofold destruction! |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Thus the LORD said to me, "Go and stand in the public gate, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, as well as in all the gates of Jerusalem; |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20and say to them, 'Listen to the word of the LORD, kings of Judah, and all Judah and all inhabitants of Jerusalem who come in through these gates: |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21'Thus says the LORD, "Take heed for yourselves, and do not carry any load on the sabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"You shall not bring a load out of your houses on the sabbath day nor do any work, but keep the sabbath day holy, as I commanded your forefathers. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Yet they did not listen or incline their ears, but stiffened their necks in order not to listen or take correction. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"But it will come about, if you listen attentively to Me," declares the LORD, "to bring no load in through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to keep the sabbath day holy by doing no work on it, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25then there will come in through the gates of this city kings and princes sitting 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 will be inhabited forever. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"They will come in from the cities of Judah and from the environs of Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the house of the LORD. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"But if you do not listen to Me to keep the sabbath day holy by not carrying a load and coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and not be quenched."'" |
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