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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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" 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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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The Lord Will Punish Judah</h3><h5 class="sp">The Lord said:</h5>1People of Judah,your sins cannot be erased.They are written on your heartslike words chiseled in stoneor carved on the cornersof your altars.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.17.1!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> * 2One generation after anotherhas set up pagan altarsand worshiped the goddess Asheraheverywhere in your country—on hills and mountains,and under large trees.3So I'll take everything you own,including your altars,and give it allto your enemies.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.17.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 4You will lose<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.17.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> the landthat I gave you,and I will make you slavesin a foreign country,because you have made my angerblaze up like a firethat won't stop burning.<h3 class="s1">Trust the Lord</h3>5I, the Lord, have put a curseon those who turn from meand trust in human strength.6They will dry up like a bushin salty desert soil,where nothing can grow.7But I will bless thosewho trust me, the Lord.8<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.17.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> They will be like treesgrowing beside a stream—trees with roots that reachdown to the water,and with leavesthat are always green.They bear fruit every yearand are never worriedby a lack of rain.9You people of Judahare so deceitfulthat you even fool yourselves,and you can't change.10<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.17.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> But I know your deedsand your thoughts,and I will make sureyou get what you deserve.11You cheated others,but everything you gainedwill fly away, like birdshatched from stolen eggs.Then you will discoverwhat fools you are.<h3 class="s1">Jeremiah Prays to the Lord</h3>12Our Lord, your templeis a glorious thronethat has stood on a mountainfrom the beginning.13You are a spring of watergiving Israel life and hope.But if the people rejectwhat you have told me,they will be swept awaylike words written in dust.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.17.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 14You, Lord, are the one I praise.So heal me and rescue me!Then I will be completely welland perfectly safe.15The people of Judah say to me,“Jeremiah, you claimed to tell uswhat the Lord has said.So why hasn't it come true?”16Our Lord, you chose meto care for your people,and that's what I have done.You know everything I have said,and I have never onceasked you to punish them.<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.17.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 17I trust you for protectionin times of trouble,so don't frighten me.18Keep me from failureand disgrace,but make my enemies failand be disgraced.Send destruction to maketheir worst fears come true.<h3 class="s1">Resting on the Sabbath</h3>19-20The Lord said:Jeremiah, stand at each city gate in Jerusalem, including the one the king uses, and speak to him and everyone else. Tell them I have said:I am the Lord, so pay attention. 21-24<a href="#Jer.17.21-Jer.17.24!x.1" id="link_Jer.17.21-Jer.17.24!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> If you value your lives, don't do any work on the Sabbath. Don't carry anything through the city gates or through the door of your house, or anywhere else. Keep the Sabbath day sacred!I gave this command to your ancestors, but they were stubborn and refused to obey or to be corrected. But if you obey, 25then Judah and Jerusalem will always be ruled by kings from David's family. The king and his officials will ride through these gates on horses or in chariots, and the people of Judah and Jerusalem will be with them. There will always be people living in Jerusalem, 26and others will come here from the nearby villages, from the towns of Judah and Benjamin,<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.17.26!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> from the hill country and the foothills to the west, and from the Southern Desert. They will bring sacrifices to please me and to give me thanks,<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.17.26!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> as well as offerings of grain and incense.27But if you keep on carrying things through the city gates on the Sabbath and keep treating it as any other day, I will set fire to these gates and burn down the whole city, including the fortresses.</div> </div> <a name="fn"></a> Footnotes: <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">carved on the corners of your altars: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">When sacrifices were offered to the <char style="nd">Lord</char> to ask him to forgive sins, some of the blood was smeared on the corners of the altar (see Leviticus 4.7,18-20,25, 26,30, 31,34, 35; 16.18). But now the <char style="nd">Lord</char> refuses to accept these sacrifices.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">enemies: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verses 2,3.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">You will lose: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">reject … dust: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">you chose … punish them: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.26 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Judah and Benjamin: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">These two tribes made up the southern kingdom of Judah.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">17.26 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sacrifices to please me and to give me thanks: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the notes at 14.12.</char></note></div></div> <div align="center">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®) © 2006 American Bible Society. 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