< Jeremiah 17 >

1 [the] sin of Judah [is] inscribed with a stylus of iron with a point of flint [is] engraved on [the] tablet of heart their and to [the] horns of altars your. 2 When remember children their altars their and Asherah poles their at tree[s] luxuriant on hills high. 3 Mountain my in the field wealth your all treasures your to plunder I will give high places your for sin in all territories your. 4 And you will let fall and in you from inheritance your which I gave to you and I will make serve you enemies your in land which not you know for a fire you have kindled in anger my until perpetuity it will burn. 5 Thus - he says Yahweh [is] cursed the man who he trusts in humankind and he makes flesh strength his and from Yahweh it turns aside heart his. 6 And he will be like a bush in the desert plain and not he will see if it will come good and he will dwell parched places in the wilderness a land of saltiness and not anyone dwells. 7 [is] blessed The man who he trusts in Yahweh and he is Yahweh trust his. 8 And he will be like a tree - planted at water and [which] at a stream it sends out roots its and not (he will see *QK) if it will come heat and it will be leafage its luxuriant and in a year of drought not it will be anxious and not it will cease from producing fruit. 9 [is] deceitful The heart more than everything and [is] incurable it who? will he know it. 10 I Yahweh [am] searching [the] heart [am] testing [the] kidneys to give to everyone (according to ways his *QK) according to [the] fruit of deeds his. 11 A partridge [which] it gathers a brood and not it has laid [one who] makes wealth and not with justice in [the] middle of (days his *QK) it will leave him and at end his he will be a fool. 12 [is] a throne of Glory a high place from first [time] [the] place of sanctuary our. 13 O hope of Israel O Yahweh all [those who] forsake you they will be ashamed (and disloyal [ones] my *QK) in the land they will be written down for they have forsaken [the] spring of water living Yahweh. 14 Heal me O Yahweh so I may be healed save me so let me be saved for [are] praise my you. 15 Here! they [are] saying to me where? [is] [the] word of Yahweh let it come please. 16 And I not I have hastened - from a shepherd after you and a day incurable not I have desired you you know [the] utterance of lips my before face your it was. 17 May not you become to me an object of terror [are] refuge my you in a day of calamity. 18 Let them be put to shame pursuers my and may not I be put to shame I let them be dismayed they and may not I be dismayed I bring on them a day of calamity and double destruction destroy them. 19 Thus he said Yahweh to me go and you will stand in [the] gate of [the] sons of (the people *QK) which they go in it [the] kings of Judah and which they go out in it and in all [the] gates of Jerusalem. 20 And you will say to them hear [the] word of Yahweh O kings of Judah and all Judah and all [the] inhabitants of Jerusalem who go in the gates these. 21 Thus he says Yahweh take heed to lives your and may not you carry a burden on [the] day of the sabbath and you will bring [it] in [the] gates of Jerusalem. 22 And not you must bring out a burden from houses your on [the] day of the sabbath and any work not you must do and you will set apart as holy [the] day of the sabbath just as I commanded ancestors your. 23 And not they listened and not they inclined ear their and they stiffened neck their to not (to listen *QK) and to not to accept correction. 24 And it will be certainly [if] you will listen! to me [the] utterance of Yahweh to not - to bring a burden in [the] gates of the city this on [the] day of the sabbath and to set apart as holy [the] day of the sabbath to not to do (on it *QK) any work. 25 And they will come in [the] gates of the city this kings - and princes [who] sit on [the] throne of David [who] ride - in chariot[s] and on horses they and officials their everyone of Judah and [the] inhabitants of Jerusalem and it will remain the city this for ever. 26 And they will come from [the] cities of Judah and from round about Jerusalem and from [the] land of Benjamin and from the Shephelah and from the hill country and from the Negev [those who] bring burnt offering and sacrifice and grain offering and frankincense and [those who] bring a thank-offering [the] house of Yahweh. 27 And if not you will listen to me to set apart as holy [the] day of the sabbath and to not - to carry a burden and to go in [the] gates of Jerusalem on [the] day of the sabbath and I will kindle a fire in gates its and it will consume [the] fortresses of Jerusalem and not it will be extinguished.

< Jeremiah 17 >