Jeremiah 17:1-8 ▼

1 “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, || With the point of a diamond, || Engraved on the tablet of their heart, || And on the horns of your altars,

2 As their sons remember their altars and their Asherim, || By the green tree, by the high hills.

3 O My mountain in the field—your strength, || All your treasures—I give for a prey, || Your high places for sin in all your borders.

4 And you have let go—even through yourself, || Of your inheritance that I gave to you, || And I have caused you to serve your enemies, || In a land that you have not known, || For you have kindled a fire in My anger, || It burns for all time.”

5 Thus said YHWH: “Cursed [is] the man who trusts in man, || And has made flesh his arm, || And whose heart turns from YHWH.

6 And he has been as a naked thing in a desert, || And does not see when good comes, || And has inhabited parched places in a wilderness, || A salt land, and not inhabited.

7 Blessed [is] the man who trusts in YHWH, || And whose confidence has been YHWH.

8 And has been as a tree planted by waters, || And he sends forth his roots by a stream, || And he does not see when heat comes, || And his leaf has been green, || And he is not sorrowful in a year of scarcity, || Nor does he cease from making fruit.