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• 17:1The sin of Judah is written / With an iron pen; / With the point of an adamant it is engraved / On the tablet of their heart / And on the horns of your altars, Compare
• 17:2While their children remember / Their altars and their Asherahs / Beside flourishing trees / Upon high hills. Compare
• 17:3O My mountain in the field, / Your wealth and all your treasures / I will give as plunder, / Your high places, because of sin, / Within all your borders. Compare
• 17:4And you yourself will let go of your inheritance, / Which I gave to you; / And I will cause you to serve your enemies / In a land which you do not know; / For you have kindled a fire in My anger, / Which will burn forever. Compare
• 17:5Thus says Jehovah, / Cursed is the man who trusts in man / And makes flesh his arm / And whose heart turns away from Jehovah. Compare
• 17:6And he will be like a shrub in the desert / And will not see when good comes; / But he will dwell in the parched places in the wilderness, / A land of salt and uninhabited. Compare
• 17:7Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah / And whose trust Jehovah is. Compare
• 17:8And he will be like a tree transplanted beside water, / Which sends out its roots by a stream, / And will not be afraid when heat comes; / For its leaves remain flourishing, / And it will not be anxious in the year of drought / And will not cease to bear fruit. Compare
• 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, / And it is incurable; / Who can know it? Compare
• 17:10I, Jehovah, search the heart / And test the inward parts, / Even to give to each one according to his ways, / According to the fruit of his deeds. Compare
• 17:11As a partridge broods over what she has not laid, / A man makes riches but not rightly; / In the midst of his days they will leave him, / And at his end he will be a fool. Compare
• 17:12A throne of glory set on high from the beginning / Is the place of our sanctuary. Compare
• 17:13You are the hope of Israel, O Jehovah; / All who forsake You will be put to shame. / Those who turn away from Me will be written in the earth / Because they forsook Jehovah, / The fountain of living waters. Compare
• 17:14Heal me, O Jehovah, and I will be healed; / Save me and I will be saved, / For You are my praise. Compare
• 17:15Indeed, they say to me, / Where is the word of Jehovah? / Let it come now! Compare
• 17:16But as for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You, / And I have not desired a day of disaster. / You know that what came out of my lips / Was before Your face. Compare
• 17:17Do not become a terror to me; / You are my refuge in an evil day. Compare
• 17:18Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, do not let me be / put to shame; / Let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed. / Bring upon them an evil day, / And break them with a double destruction. Compare
• 17:19Thus said Jehovah to me, Go and stand in the gate of the sons of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and through which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, Compare
• 17:20And say to them, Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah and all Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem who enter through these gates: Compare
• 17:21Thus says Jehovah, Take heed to your souls and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring anything through the gates of Jerusalem. Compare
• 17:22And do not bring out any burden from your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work; but sanctify the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. Compare
• 17:23But they did not listen or incline their ear; rather they stiffened their neck that they might not hear or receive correction. Compare
• 17:24But if indeed you listen to Me, declares Jehovah, and bring no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but sanctify the Sabbath day and do not do any work on it, Compare
• 17:25Then kings and princes who sit on the throne of David, riding on chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, will come through the gates of this city; and this city will be inhabited forever. Compare
• 17:26And they will come from the cities of Judah and the places surrounding Jerusalem and from the land of Benjamin and from the lowland and from the hill country and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices and meal offerings and frankincense and bringing thanksgiving to the house of Jehovah. Compare
• 17:27But if you do not listen to Me to sanctify the Sabbath day and not to bear a burden when 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 will not be extinguished. Compare

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