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throughout your borders. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>And you will, even of yourself, let go of your inheritance<br>         That I gave you;<br>         And I will make you serve your enemies<br>         In the land which you do not know;<br>         For you have kindled a fire in My anger<br>         Which will burn forever. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br>         Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind<br>         And makes flesh his strength,<br>         And whose heart turns away from the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>For he will be like a bush in the desert<br>         And will not see when prosperity comes,<br>         But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,<br>         A land of salt without inhabitant. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Blessed is the man who trusts in the L<font size="1">ORD</font><br>         And whose trust is the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>For he will be like a tree planted by the water,<br>         That extends its roots by a stream<br>         And will not fear when the heat comes;<br>         But its leaves will be green,<br>         And it will not be anxious in a year of drought<br>         Nor cease to yield fruit. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>The heart is more deceitful than all else<br>         And is desperately sick;<br>         Who can understand it? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>I, the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, search the heart,<br>         I test the mind,<br>         Even to give to each man according to his ways,<br>         According to the results of his deeds. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid,<br>         <i>So</i> is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly;<br>         In the midst of his days it will forsake him,<br>         And in the end he will be a fool. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>A glorious throne on high from the beginning<br>         Is the place of our sanctuary. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the hope of Israel,<br>         All who forsake You will be put to shame.<br>         Those who turn away on earth will be written down,<br>         Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, even the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Heal me, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, and I will be healed;<br>         Save me and I will be saved,<br>         For You are my praise. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Look, they keep saying to me,<br>         Where is the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>?<br>         Let it come now! <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>But as for me, I have not hurried away from <i>being</i> a shepherd after You,<br>         Nor have I longed for the woeful day;<br>         You Yourself know that the utterance of my lips<br>         Was in Your presence. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Do not be a terror to me;<br>         You are my refuge in the day of disaster. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, let me not be put to shame;<br>         Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed.<br>         Bring on them a day of disaster,<br>         And crush them with twofold destruction!<p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Sabbath Must Be Kept</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Thus the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to me, Go and stand in the public gate, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, as well as in all the gates of Jerusalem; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>and say to them, Listen to the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, kings of Judah, and all Judah and all inhabitants of Jerusalem who come in through these gates: <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, Take heed for yourselves, and do not carry any load on the sabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>You shall not bring a load out of your houses on the sabbath day nor do any work, but keep the sabbath day holy, as I commanded your forefathers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Yet they did not listen or incline their ears, but stiffened their necks in order not to listen or take correction. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>But it will come about, if you listen attentively to Me, declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, to bring no load in through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to keep the sabbath day holy by doing no work on it, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>then there will come in through the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>They will come in from the cities of Judah and from the environs of Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>But if you do not listen to Me to keep the sabbath day holy by not carrying a load and coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and not be quenched. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/17.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/17.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Sacrificing 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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/jeremiah/17.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />My mountain in the field, thy substance, all thy treasures will I give for a spoil, thy high places, because of sin throughout thy borders.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/17.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/17.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/17.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/17.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> O My mountain in the field -- thy strength, All thy treasures -- for a prey I give, Thy high places for sin in all thy borders.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/sins_writing_and_its_erasure.htm">Sin's Writing and Its Erasure</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars.'--JER. xvii. 1. 'Ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.'-2 COR. iii. 3. 'Blotting out the handwriting that was against us.'---COL .ii. 14. I have put these verses together because they <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/sins_writing_and_its_erasure.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/a_soul_gazing_on_god.htm">A Soul Gazing on God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.'--JER. xvii. 12. I must begin by a word or two of explanation as to the language of this passage. The word 'is' is a supplement, and most probably it ought to be omitted, and the verse treated as being, not a statement, but a series of exclamations. The next verse runs thus, 'O Lord! the hope of Israel, all that forsake Thee shall be ashamed'; and the most natural and forcible understanding of the words of my text is reached <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/a_soul_gazing_on_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/two_lists_of_names.htm">Two Lists of Names</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'They that depart from Me shall be written in the earth'--JER. xvii. 13. 'Rejoice that your names are written in heaven.'--LUKE x. 20. A name written on earth implies that the bearer of the name belongs to earth, and it also secondarily suggests that the inscription lasts but for a little while. Contrariwise, a name written in heaven implies that its bearer belongs to heaven, and that the inscription will abide. We find running throughout Scripture the metaphor of books in which men's names are <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/two_lists_of_names.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_heath_in_the_desert.htm">The Heath in the Desert and the Tree by the River</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'He shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited...He shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.'--JER. xvii. 6, 8. The prophet here puts before us two highly finished pictures. In the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_heath_in_the_desert.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/schleiermacher/selected_sermons_of_schleiermacher/iii_a_nations_duty_in.htm">A Nation's Duty in a War for Freedom. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Preached March 28th, 1813.) TEXT: JEREMIAH xvii. 5-8, AND xviii. 7-10. MY devout hearers! Through an extraordinary occurrence we find the order of our discourses on the suffering Saviour interrupted, and our to-day's meeting devoted to a very different subject. How deeply have we all been moved by the events of the last weeks! We saw march forth from our gates the army of a people nominally allied to us, but our feeling was not that of parting with friends; with thankful joy did we feel at last <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/schleiermacher/selected_sermons_of_schleiermacher/iii_a_nations_duty_in.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Friedrich Schleiermacher—</span><span class="citation2">Selected Sermons of Schleiermacher</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xxi_the_carnal_mind.htm">"The Carnal Mind is Enmity against God for it is not Subject to the Law of God, Neither Indeed Can Be. So Then they that Are</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Rom. viii. s 7, 8.--"The carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God." It is not the least of man's evils, that he knows not how evil he is, therefore the Searcher of the heart of man gives the most perfect account of it, Jer. xvii. 12. "The heart is deceitful above all things," as well as "desperately wicked," two things superlative and excessive in it, bordering upon an infiniteness, such <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xxi_the_carnal_mind.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/neander/light_in_the_dark_places/severinus_in_germany.htm">Severinus in Germany. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">As the Lord ever sends his angels when there is most need of help, so in the midst of the desolation and destruction which ensued on that irruption of the barbarians by which the Roman empire was broken in pieces after the death of Attila, the great desolator and exterminator, (A. D. 453,) He sent to the aid of the oppressed people of Germany, on the banks of the Danube, in their sore need, a man endowed with an extraordinary energy of love. His whole appearance has in it something enigmatical. As <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/neander/light_in_the_dark_places/severinus_in_germany.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Augustus Neander—</span><span class="citation2">Light in the Dark Places</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney_hymns/hymn_66_trust_of_the.htm">Trust of the Wicked, and the Righteous Compared. Jer 17:5-8</a><br></span><span class="snippet"> <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney_hymns/hymn_66_trust_of_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Newton—</span><span class="citation2">Olney Hymns</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on_continence/section_10_but_in_order.htm">But in Order that we Fall not Away from Continence...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">10. But in order that we fall not away from Continence, we ought to watch specially against those snares of the suggestions of the devil, that we presume not of our own strength. For, "Cursed is every one that setteth his hope in man." [1838] And who is he, but man? We cannot therefore truly say that he setteth not his hope in man, who setteth it in himself. For this also, to "live after man," what is it but to "live after the flesh?" Whoso therefore is tempted by such a suggestion, let him hear, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on_continence/section_10_but_in_order.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">On Continence</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gregory/the_epistles_of_saint_gregory_the_great/epistle_i_to_the_roman.htm">Epistle i. To the Roman Citizens. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">To the Roman Citizens. Gregory, servant of the servants of God, to his most beloved sons the Roman citizens. It has come to my ears that certain men of perverse spirit have sown among you some things that are wrong and opposed to the holy faith, so as to forbid any work being done on the Sabbath day. What else can I call these but preachers of Antichrist, who, when he comes, will cause the Sabbath day as well as the Lord's day to be kept free from all work. For, because he pretends to die and rise <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gregory/the_epistles_of_saint_gregory_the_great/epistle_i_to_the_roman.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Gregory the Great—</span><span class="citation2">the Epistles of Saint Gregory the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xxiv_and_if_any.htm">"And if any Man Sin, we have an Advocate with the Father,",</a><br></span><span class="snippet">1 John ii. 1.--"And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father,", &c. There is here a sad supposition, but too certain, that any man may sin, yea, that all men will sin, even those who have most communion with God, and interest in the blood of Christ. Yet they are not altogether exempted from this fatal lot of mankind. It is incident even to them to sin, and too frequently incident, but yet we have a happy and sweet provision, for indemnity from the hazard of sin,--"we have an advocate <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xxiv_and_if_any.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. 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