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Jeremiah 17

17 Yahweh said, “It is as though a list of the sins committed by the people of Judah is engraved with an iron chisel, or engraved using the fine point of a very hard stone,

on their inner beings and on the altars where they worship their idols.

2 Even their children eagerly go to the altars to worship their gods,

and to the poles that represent the goddess Asherah at which their parents worshiped,

shrines that are underneath the big trees

and on the high hills.

3 So, I will allow your enemies to capture Zion, my holy mountain,

and all your wealth and all your valuable things as plunder

because of your sinful acts of idolatrous worship that you have done at your high places within all your territories.

4 The land that I gave to you will no longer belong to you.

I will allow your enemies to take you to a land that you are not familiar with,

and you will become their slaves.

I will do that because I am extremely angry with you;

my being angry is like a fire that will burn forever.”

5 This is also what Yahweh says:

“I condemn those who trust in human beings to help them,

those who rely on themselves and other people

instead of trusting in me.

6 They are like bushes in the desert,

they are people who will not experience any good things.

Those people will live in the barren desert

in a salty area, where people do not live because very few things can grow there.

7 But I, Yahweh bless those who trust in me,

and who confidently expect me to take care of them.

8 Those people are like fruit trees that have been planted along a riverbank,

trees that have roots that go down into the wet ground beside the water.

They are trees whose leaves remain green when it becomes hot,

trees that continue to bear fruit when there are many months in which there is no rain.

9 Human hearts are extremely corrupt, more than anything else,

and no human can change that.

It is also completely impossible for anyone to understand the human heart.

10 I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone’s inner being,

and I examine what they are thinking.

I do this in order to give all people reward or punishment,

according to what they have done.”

11 I, Jeremiah, agree, because I know that people who become rich by doing things that are unjust

are like birds that hatch eggs that they did not lay.

So, when those people have lived only half of the years that they expect to live, their wealth will disappear.

Then other people will realize that those rich people have been foolish.

12 Yahweh, your temple is like a glorious throne

that has been on a high hill since it was built.

13 Yahweh, you are the one whom we Israelite people hope in,

and you will openly disgrace all those who forsake you.

Those people who reject the messages I give them from you, will quickly disappear, like writing in the dust which quickly disappears when the wind blows it away.

They will soon disappear because they have abandoned you, Yahweh, who are like a fountain where people obtain fresh water.

14 Yahweh, please heal me, because if you heal me, I will experience true healing.

Please rescue me and I will live safely, because you are the only one whom I worship.

15 People often ridicule me and say,

“You tell us messages that you say came from Yahweh,

but your predictions have not happened!”

16 Yahweh, you appointed me to take care of your people like a shepherd takes care of his sheep; I have not abandoned that work.

You know that I have not wanted this disastrous time to come to people who ridicule me.

You know everything that I have said to your people.

17 Do not cause me to be terrified!

When disasters occur, you are the one to whom I will go for safety.

18 So now, cause those who persecute me to be ashamed and dismayed,

but do not allow me to be ashamed and dismayed.

Cause disastrous things to happen to them!

Do to them many things that will completely destroy them!

19 This is what Yahweh said to me: “Go to the city gates in Jerusalem. First go to the gate where the kings of Judah go in and out of the city, and then go to each of the other gates in Jerusalem. 20 Say to the people at each gate, ‘You kings of Judah and everyone else who is living in Jerusalem and all you other people of Judah who enter these gates, listen to this message from Yahweh! 21 He says, “Listen to this warning carefully! Stop doing work on Sabbath days! Stop carrying loads through these gates on those days! 22 Do not carry loads out of your houses or do any other work on Sabbath days! Instead, cause Sabbath days to be set apart for me. I commanded your ancestors to do that, 23 but they did not listen to me or obey me. When I did things to correct them, they stubbornly refused to pay attention to what I said or to accept it. 24 But I say that if you obey me, and if you do not carry loads through these gates on Sabbath days or do any other work on Sabbath days, and if you dedicate the Sabbath days to me, 25 kings of Judah and their officials will go in and out of these gates. There will always be someone who is a descendant of King David ruling here in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates with the men of Judah and the people living in Jerusalem. They will be riding in chariots and on horses, and there will be people living in this city forever. 26 And people will come to Jerusalem bringing offerings to be completely burned on the altar and other offerings. They will bring to the Temple grain offerings and incense and offerings to thank me. People will bring these offerings from the cities in Judah and the villages near Jerusalem and from the land where the tribe of Benjamin lives and from the western foothills and from the southern hill country and from the arid south country. 27 But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you continue to carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire.” ’ ”