Jeremiah 17
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The Persistent Sin of Judah
1The sin of Judah is inscribed
with an iron stylus.#Jb 19:24
With a diamond point
it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts#Pr 3:3; 7:3; Jr 31:33–34
and on the horns of their#17:1 Some Hb mss, Syr, Vg; other Hb mss read your altars,
2while their children remember their altars
and their Asherah poles, by the green trees
on the high hills #Dt 16:21; 1Kg 14:23; 2Kg 17:10—
3my mountains in the countryside.
I will give up your wealth
and all your treasures as plunder#Ps 44:10; Is 10:6; 42:22–24; Jr 20:5; 49:31–32; Ezk 7:21; 26:12; 29:19; 36:4; Am 3:11; Zph 1:13
because of the sin of your high places#17:3 Lit plunder, your high places because of sin
in all your borders.#Jr 15:13
4You will, on your own, relinquish your inheritance
that I gave you.
I will make you serve your enemies
in a land you do not know,#Jr 16:13; 22:28; Ezk 32:9
for you have set my anger on fire;#Dt 32:22; Jr 15:14
it will burn forever.
Curse and Blessing
5This is what the Lord says:
Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind.#Ps 146:3
He makes human flesh his strength,#2Ch 32:8
and his heart turns from the Lord.
6He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;#Jr 48:6
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.#Gn 19:24–26; Ps 107:34
7The person who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence indeed is the Lord, is blessed.#Ps 40:4
8He will be like a tree planted by water:#Ps 1:3; Ezk 17:5–8
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 Deceitful Heart
9The heart is more deceitful than anything else,#Gn 6:5
and incurable — who can understand it?#Jr 15:18; Mc 1:9
10I, the Lord, examine the mind,
I test the heart#17:10 Lit kidneys#Dt 8:2; Ps 17:3; 26:2; Pr 16:2; 17:3
to give to each according to his way,
according to what his actions deserve.#Jr 4:18; 7:3,5; 18:11; 23:22; 25:5; 26:3,13; 32:19; Rm 2:6
11He who makes a fortune unjustly
is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.
In the middle of his life
his riches will abandon him,
so in the end he will be a fool.#Lk 12:20
12A glorious throne#Is 6:1–3; Jr 14:21; Ezk 1:26–28
on high#Ps 102:19; Jr 25:30 from the beginning
is the place of our sanctuary.#Ps 68:33–35; Is 60:13
13 Lord, the hope of Israel,#Jr 14:8; 50:7
all who abandon you
will be put to shame.
All who turn away from me
will be written in the dirt,
for they have abandoned
the Lord, the fountain of living water.#Jr 2:13
Jeremiah’s Plea
14Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;
save me, and I will be saved,
for you are my praise.#Ps 22:25; 71:6; 109:1
15Hear how they keep challenging me,#Is 5:19; 2Pt 3:4
“Where is the word of the Lord?
Let it come!”
16But I have not run away from being your shepherd,
and I have not longed for the fatal day.#Am 5:18
You know my words were spoken in your presence.
17Don’t become a terror to me.
You are my refuge#Ps 46:1; 61:3; 62:7–8 in the day of disaster.
18Let my persecutors be put to shame,#Ps 35:4
but don’t let me be put to shame.
Let them be terrified, but don’t let me be terrified.
Bring on them the day of disaster;#Ps 35:8
shatter them with total#17:18 Lit double destruction.
Observing the Sabbath
19This is what the Lord said to me, “Go and stand at the People’s Gate, through which the kings of Judah enter and leave, as well as at all the gates of Jerusalem. 20Announce to them, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the residents of Jerusalem who enter through these gates. 21This is what the Lord says: Watch yourselves; do not pick up a load and bring it in through Jerusalem’s gates on the Sabbath day.#Neh 13:15–21; Jn 5:9–12 22Do not carry a load out of your houses on the Sabbath day or do any work,#Ex 20:8–10; Dt 5:12–14; Is 56:2–6 but keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your ancestors.#Ezk 20:12 23They wouldn’t listen or pay attention but became obstinate,#Jr 7:26 not listening or accepting discipline.
24“‘However, if you listen to me — this is the Lord’s declaration — and do not bring loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it, 25kings and princes will enter through the gates of this city. They will sit on the throne of David;#Jr 22:2,30; 29:16; 36:30 they will ride in chariots and on horses#Jr 22:4 with their officials, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem. This city will be inhabited forever. 26Then people will come from the cities of Judah and from the area around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin and from the Judean foothills, from the hill country and from the Negev#Jr 32:44; 33:13 bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thanksgiving sacrifices to the house of the Lord. 27But if you do not listen to me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, I will set fire to its gates,#Lm 4:11 and it will consume the citadels#Jr 49:27; Am 1:14 of Jerusalem#2Kg 25:9 and not be extinguished.’”#Jr 7:20
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Jeremias (Jeremiah) 17
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1The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of their altars.
2When their children shall remember their altars and their groves and their green trees upon high mountains,
3Sacrificing in the field: I will give thy strength and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin in all thy borders.
4And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance which I gave thee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a land which thou knowest not. Because thou hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall burn for ever.
5Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord!
6For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert, in a salt land, and not inhabited.
7Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.
8And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous: neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.
9The heart is perverse above all things and unsearchable. Who can know it?
10I am the Lord who search the heart and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way and according to the fruit of his devices.
11 As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days he shall leave them: and in his latter end he shall be a fool.
12A high and glorious throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctification:
13O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be confounded: they that depart from thee shall be written in the earth: because they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.
14Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed: save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
15Behold, they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord? let it come.
16And I am not troubled, following thee for my pastor: and I have not desired the day of man, thou knowest. That which went out of my lips hath been right in thy sight.
17Be not thou a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of affliction.
18Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be confounded: let them be afraid and let not me be afraid, bring upon them the day of affliction and with a double destruction destroy them.
19Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Juda come in and go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.
20And thou shalt say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and all Juda, and all the inhabitant of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates.
21Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your souls and carry no burdens on the Sabbath day: and bring them not in by the gates of Jerusalem.
22And do not bring burdens out of your houses on the sabbath day: neither do ye any work. Sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
23But they did not hear nor incline their ear: but hardened their neck, that they might not hear me and might not receive instruction.
24And it shall come to pass, if you will hearken to me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burdens by the gates of this city on the sabbath day, and if you will sanctify the sabbath day to do no work therein:
25Then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes, sitting upon the throne of David and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.
26And they shall come from the cities of Juda and from the places round about Jerusalem and from the land of Benjamin and from the plains and from the mountains and from the south, bringing holocausts and victims and sacrifices and frankincense: and they shall bring in an offering into the house of the Lord.
27But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath day, and not to carry burdens, and not to bring them in by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof. And it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem: and it shall not be quenched.
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