ULT JER Chapter 17

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17 The sin of Judah is being written with a stylus of iron with a point of diamond,

being engraved on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of your altars.

2 as their children remember their altars and their Asherim,

by the green tree on the high hills.

3 My mountain in the field,

your wealth,

all your treasures as plunder I will give,

your high places for sin within all your borders.

4 And you shall loosen, even yourself, from the inheritance that I gave to you,

and I will make you serve your enemies in the land that you do not know,

for you have kindled a fire in my nose, which shall burn unto eternity.”

5 Thus says Yahweh, “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind;

and who makes flesh his arm, and who turns away his heart from Yahweh.

6 For he shall be like a shrub in the desert and he shall not see when good comes,

but shall dwell in the parched places in the wilderness, a land of salt, and not inhabited.

7 Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and his confidence is in Yahweh.

8 For he shall be like a tree which is planted by waters, and by the river, which sends out its roots,

and he does not fear when heat comes, for its leaf will be green,

and in the year of drought he will not anxious, nor will he cease from producing fruit.

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is incurable; who can know it?

10 I, Yahweh, am the one searching the heart, testing the kidneys,

to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

11 Like a partridge that hatches but did not lay, is the one getting riches but not by justice;

in the midst of his days, it will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.

12 A throne of glory, high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

13 The hope of Israel, Yahweh, all of the ones abandoning you shall be ashamed; the ones turning away from me shall be written in the earth,

because they have forsaken Yahweh, the fountain of living waters.

14 Heal me, Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.

15 Behold, they are saying to me, “Where is the word of Yahweh? Let it come now”

16 But I did not hasten from being one shepherding following you and the disastrous day I have not desired.

You know what came out of my lips; it was before your face.

17 Do not be a terror to me; you are my refuge in the day of disaster.

18 Let the ones persecuting me be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed.

Bring the day of disaster on them and destroy them with double destruction.

19 Thus said Yahweh to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the sons of the people which the kings of Judah enter by and which they go out by, and in all of the gates of Jerusalem. 20 And you shall say to them, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah and all of Judah, and all of the ones who inhabit Jerusalem, the ones who enter by these gates. 21 Thus says Yahweh: “Take heed to yourselves and do not bear a burden on the day of the Sabbath, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. 22 And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the day of the Sabbath and you are not to do any work, but you shall make holy the day of the Sabbath, as I commanded your fathers. 23 Yet they listened not nor inclined their ear, but stiffened their neck to not hear and to not receive instruction.

24 And it will happen that if listening you listen to me”—the declaration of Yahweh—“to not bring a burden through the gates of this city on the day of the Sabbath, but make holy the day of the Sabbath to not do on it any work, 25 then shall enter the gates of this city, kings and officials, sitting on the throne of David, riding in the chariot and on horses, they and their officials, men of Judah and the ones inhabiting Jerusalem, and they shall inhabit this city forever. 26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah and from all around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the Shephelah, and from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices and grain offerings and frankincense and bringing thank offerings to the house of Yahweh. 27 But if you do not listen to me, to make holy the day of the Sabbath and to not bear a burden nor enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath, then I will kindle a fire in her gates, and it shall consume the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.” ’ ”