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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jeremiah 17 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Jeremiah 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/16.htm" title="Jeremiah 16">◄</a> Jeremiah 17 <a href="../jeremiah/18.htm" title="Jeremiah 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/jeremiah/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool,</p><p class="line2">inscribed with a flint point,</p><p class="line1">on the tablets of their hearts</p><p class="line2">and on the horns of their altars.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Even their children remember</p><p class="line2">their altars and Asherah poles <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah">a</a></sup></span> </p><p class="line1">beside the spreading trees</p><p class="line2">and on the high hills.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>My mountain in the land</p><p class="line2">and your <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or hills 3 and the mountains of the land. Your">b</a></sup></span> wealth and all your treasures</p><p class="line1">I will give away as plunder,</p><p class="line2">together with your high places,</p><p class="line2">because of sin throughout your country.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Through your own fault you will lose</p><p class="line2">the inheritance I gave you.</p><p class="line1">I will enslave you to your enemies</p><p class="line2">in a land you do not know,</p><p class="line1">for you have kindled my anger,</p><p class="line2">and it will burn forever.”</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,</p><p class="line2">who draws strength from mere flesh</p><p class="line2">and whose heart turns away from the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;</p><p class="line2">they will not see prosperity when it comes.</p><p class="line1">They will dwell in the parched places of the desert,</p><p class="line2">in a salt land where no one lives.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“But blessed is the one who trusts in the <span class="name">Lord</span>,</p><p class="line2">whose confidence is in him.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They will be like a tree planted by the water</p><p class="line2">that sends out its roots by the stream.</p><p class="line1">It does not fear when heat comes;</p><p class="line2">its leaves are always green.</p><p class="line1">It has no worries in a year of drought</p><p class="line2">and never fails to bear fruit.”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The heart is deceitful above all things</p><p class="line2">and beyond cure.</p><p class="line2">Who can understand it?</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“I the <span class="name">Lord</span> search the heart</p><p class="line2">and examine the mind,</p><p class="line1">to reward each person according to their conduct,</p><p class="line2">according to what their deeds deserve.”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay</p><p class="line2">are those who gain riches by unjust means.</p><p class="line1">When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,</p><p class="line2">and in the end they will prove to be fools.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning,</p><p class="line2">is the place of our sanctuary.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="name">Lord</span>, you are the hope of Israel;</p><p class="line2">all who forsake you will be put to shame.</p><p class="line1">Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust</p><p class="line2">because they have forsaken the <span class="name">Lord</span>,</p><p class="line2">the spring of living water.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Heal me, <span class="name">Lord</span>, and I will be healed;</p><p class="line2">save me and I will be saved,</p><p class="line2">for you are the one I praise.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They keep saying to me,</p><p class="line2">“Where is the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span>?</p><p class="line2">Let it now be fulfilled!”</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I have not run away from being your shepherd;</p><p class="line2">you know I have not desired the day of despair.</p><p class="line2">What passes my lips is open before you.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Do not be a terror to me;</p><p class="line2">you are my refuge in the day of disaster.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Let my persecutors be put to shame,</p><p class="line2">but keep me from shame;</p><p class="line1">let them be terrified,</p><p class="line2">but keep me from terror.</p><p class="line1">Bring on them the day of disaster;</p><p class="line2">destroy them with double destruction.</p></div> <p class="sectionhead">Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to me: “Go and stand at the Gate of the People, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Army">c</a></sup></span> through which the kings of Judah go in and out; stand also at all the other gates of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, you kings of Judah and all people of Judah and everyone living in Jerusalem who come through these gates. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says: Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But if you are careful to obey me, declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>then kings who sit on David’s throne will come through the gates of this city with their officials. They and their officials will come riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by the men of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>People will come from the towns of Judah and the villages around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin and the western foothills, from the hill country and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.’ ”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>hills<br />     <span class="fnref">3</span>and the mountains of the land.<br />     Your</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Army</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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