Jeremiah 17 — BSB
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The Sin and Punishment of Judah
17“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus,engraved with a diamond pointon the tablets of their heartsand on the horns of their altars.2Even their children remember their altars and Asherah polesby the green trees and on the high hills.3O My mountain in the countryside,I will give over your wealthand all your treasures as plunder,because of the sin of your high places,within all your borders.4And you yourself will relinquishthe inheritance that I gave you.I will enslave you to your enemiesin a land that you do not know,for you have kindled My anger;it will burn forever.”5This is what the LORD says:
“Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind,who makes mere flesh his strength+
and turns his heart from the LORD.6He will be like a shrub in the desert;he will not see when prosperity comes.He will dwell in the parched places of the desert,in a salt land where no one lives.7But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,whose confidence is in Him.8He is like a tree planted by the watersthat sends out its roots toward the stream.It does not fear when the heat comes,and its leaves are always green.It does not worry in a year of drought,nor does it cease to produce fruit.9The heart is deceitful above all thingsand beyond cure.
Who can understand it?10I, the LORD, search the heart;I examine the mind+to reward a man according to his way,by what his deeds deserve.11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not layis the man who makes a fortune unjustly.In the middle of his days his riches will desert him,and in the end he will be the fool.”
Jeremiah’s Prayer for Deliverance
12A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning,is the place of our sanctuary.13O LORD, the hope of Israel,all who abandon You will be put to shame.All who turn away will be written in the dust,for they have abandoned the LORD,the fountain of living water.14Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed;save me, and I will be saved,
for You are my praise.15Behold, they keep saying to me,“Where is the word of the LORD?
Let it come now!”16But I have not run away from being Your shepherd;I have not desired the day of despair.You know that the utterance of my lipswas spoken in Your presence.17Do not become a terror to me;You are my refuge in the day of disaster.18Let my persecutors be put to shame,but do not let me be put to shame.Let them be terrified,but do not let me be terrified.Bring upon them the day of disasterand shatter them with double destruction.