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Jeremiah 17:5-9

Jeremiah 17:5-9 CSB

This is what the LORD says: Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind.  He makes human flesh his strength,  and his heart turns from the  LORD. He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;  he cannot see when good comes but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one lives.  The person who trusts in the  LORD, whose confidence indeed is the  LORD, is blessed.  He will be like a tree planted by water:  it sends its roots out toward a stream, it doesn’t fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit. The heart is more deceitful than anything else,  and incurable — who can understand it?