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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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/jeremiah/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Judah’s Sin and Punishment</p><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“The sin of Judah</p><p class="line2">is inscribed with an iron chisel—</p><p class="line1">engraved with a diamond point on their stony hearts</p><p class="line2">and on the corners 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 go to worship</p><p class="line2">at their pagan altars and Asherah poles,</p><p class="line1">beneath every green tree</p><p class="line2">and on every high hill.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So I will hand over my holy mountain—</p><p class="line2">along with all your wealth and treasures</p><p class="line2">and your pagan shrines—</p><p class="line1">as plunder to your enemies,</p><p class="line2">for sin runs rampant in your land.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The wonderful possession I have reserved for you</p><p class="line2">will slip from your hands.</p><p class="line1">I will tell your enemies to take you</p><p class="line2">as captives to a foreign land.</p><p class="line1">For my anger blazes like a fire</p><p class="line2">that will burn forever.”</p><p class="hdg">Wisdom from the LORD</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>This is what the LORD says:</p><p class="line1">“Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans,</p><p class="line2">who rely on human strength</p><p class="line2">and turn their hearts away from the LORD.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They are like stunted shrubs in the desert,</p><p class="line2">with no hope for the future.</p><p class="line1">They will live in the barren wilderness,</p><p class="line2">in an uninhabited salty land.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“But blessed are those who trust in the LORD</p><p class="line2">and have made the LORD their hope and confidence.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They are like trees planted along a riverbank,</p><p class="line2">with roots that reach deep into the water.</p><p class="line1">Such trees are not bothered by the heat</p><p class="line2">or worried by long months of drought.</p><p class="line1">Their leaves stay green,</p><p class="line2">and they never stop producing fruit.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,</p><p class="line2">and desperately wicked.</p><p class="line2">Who really knows how bad it is?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But I, the LORD, search all hearts</p><p class="line2">and examine secret motives.</p><p class="line1">I give all people their due rewards,</p><p class="line2">according to what their actions deserve.”</p><p class="hdg">Jeremiah’s Trust in the LORD</p><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 she has not laid,</p><p class="line2">so are those who get their wealth by unjust means.</p><p class="line1">At midlife they will lose their riches;</p><p class="line2">in the end, they will become poor old fools.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But we worship at your throne—</p><p class="line2">eternal, high, and glorious!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>O LORD, the hope of Israel,</p><p class="line2">all who turn away from you will be disgraced.</p><p class="line1">They will be buried in the dust of the earth,</p><p class="line2">for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>O LORD, if you heal me, I will be truly healed;</p><p class="line2">if you save me, I will be truly saved.</p><p class="line2">My praises are for you alone!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>People scoff at me and say,</p><p class="line1">“What is this ‘message from the LORD’ you talk about?</p><p class="line2">Why don’t your predictions come true?”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>LORD, I have not abandoned my job</p><p class="line2">as a shepherd for your people.</p><p class="line1">I have not urged you to send disaster.</p><p class="line2">You have heard everything I’ve said.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>LORD, don’t terrorize me!</p><p class="line2">You alone are my hope 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>Bring shame and dismay on all who persecute me,</p><p class="line2">but don’t let me experience shame and dismay.</p><p class="line1">Bring a day of terror on them.</p><p class="line2">Yes, bring double destruction upon them!</p><p class="hdg">Observing the Sabbath</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 LORD said to me: “Go and stand in the gates of Jerusalem, first in the gate where the king goes in and out, and then in each of the other gates. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Say to all the people, ‘Listen to this message from the LORD, you kings of Judah and all you people of Judah and everyone living in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>This is what the LORD says: Listen to my warning! Stop carrying on your trade at Jerusalem’s gates on the Sabbath day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Do not do your work on the Sabbath, but make it a holy day. I gave this command to your ancestors, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>but they did not listen or obey. They stubbornly refused to pay attention or accept my discipline.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“‘But if you obey me, says the LORD, and do not carry on your trade at the gates or work on the Sabbath day, and if you keep it holy, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>then kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates forever. There will always be a descendant of David sitting on the throne here in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will always ride in and out among the people of Judah in chariots and on horses, and this city will remain forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And from all around Jerusalem, from the towns of Judah and Benjamin, from the western foothills<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> and the hill country and the Negev, the people will come with their burnt offerings and sacrifices. They will bring their grain offerings, frankincense, and thanksgiving offerings to the LORD’s Temple.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“‘But if you do not listen to me and refuse to keep the Sabbath holy, and if on the Sabbath day you bring loads of merchandise through the gates of Jerusalem just as on other days, then I will set fire to these gates. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out the roaring flames.’”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:26 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the Shephelah.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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