THE
BOOK OF JEREMIAH
Jeremiah Chapter
17
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¶ The sin of
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While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees
on the high hills.
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O my mountains in the countryside, I will give away your wealth and all
your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places,
throughout all your land.
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And you will, of yourself, relinquish your heritage that I gave you; and I will
cause you to serve your enemies in the land that you do not know: for you have
kindled a fire in my anger, which will burn forever.
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¶ The LORD says; Cursed is the man who trusts
in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
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For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see any good come; but
will live in the parched places in the desert, in a salt land that is
not inhabited.
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Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose confidence is in
the LORD.
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For he will be like a tree planted by water, which spreads out its roots by the
river, and does not notice when heat comes, but its leaf will be green; and it
will not be troubled in a year of drought, or stop yielding fruit.
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:
who can know it?
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I the LORD search the heart, I test what is within, to give to every man
according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
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He who makes a fortune unjustly; is like a partridge that sits on
eggs, which do not hatch; they will leave him in the midst of his days, and
in the end he will be a fool.
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¶ The place of our refuge is a glorious throne
established on high from the beginning.
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O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be ashamed.
Those who turn away from me will be consigned to the dust, because they have
forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
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Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved: for you are
my praise.
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Look, they are asking me, Where is what the
LORD predicted? let it come now.
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As for me, I have not run away from being your pastor: nor have I desired the
day of disaster; you know: that my words were spoken in your presence.
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Do not be a terror to me: you are my hope in the day of trouble.
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Let those who persecute me be confounded, but do not let me be confounded: let
them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of
evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
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¶ The LORD said to me; Go and stand in the gateway of the children of the
people, where the kings of Judah come in, and where they go out, and in all the
gates of Jerusalem;
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And say to them, Hear the word of the LORD, you kings
of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter in by
these gates:
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The LORD says; Watch yourselves, and do not carry any
burdens on the sabbath day, or bring them in
through the gates of Jerusalem;
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And do not carry any burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, or do any work, but hallow the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
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But they did not obey, or listen, but made their neck stiff, that they might
not hear, or receive instruction.
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And it will come to pass, if you obey me, says the LORD, by not bringing any
burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath
day, and hallow the sabbath day, by not doing any
work in it;
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Then kings and princes who sit upon the throne of David will enter the gates of
this city, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men
of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city will always be
inhabited.
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And they will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around
Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the
mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and
food offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, to the house of
the LORD.
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But if you will not obey me to hallow the sabbath
day, by not carrying burdens into the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in its gates, and it
will devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it will not be put out.