Jeremiah 17

CLV(i) 1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond, Graven on the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars, 2 As their sons remember their altars and their shrines, By the green tree, by the high hills." 3 O My mountain in the field--your strength, All your treasures--for a prey I give, Your high places for sin in all your borders." 4 And you have let go--even through yourself, Of your inheritance that I gave to you, And I have caused you to serve your enemies, In a land that you have not known, For a fire you have kindled in Mine anger, Unto the eon it does burn." 5 Thus said Yahweh:Cursed [is] the man who does trust in man, And has made flesh his arm, And from Yahweh whose heart turns." 6 And he has been as a naked thing in a desert, And does not see when good comes, And has inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited." 7 Blessed [is] the man who trusts in Yahweh, And whose confidence has been Yahweh." 8 And has been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sends forth his roots, And he does not see when heat comes, And his leaf has been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor does he cease from making fruit." 9 Crooked [is] the heart above all things, And it [is] incurable--who does know it? 10 I Yahweh do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings." 11 A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, [Is] one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he does forsake it, And in his latter end--he is a fool." 12 A throne of honor on high from the beginning, The place of our sanctuary, 13 The hope of Israel [is] Yahweh, All forsaking You are ashamed, And `My apostates' in the earth are written, For they have forsaken Yahweh, A fountain of living waters." 14 Heal me, O Yahweh, and I am healed, Save me, and I am saved, for my praise [are] You." 15 Lo, they are saying unto me:`Where [is] the word of Yahweh? pray, let it come.'" 16 And I hastened not from feeding after You, And the desperate day I have not desired, You--You have known, The produce of my lips, before Your face it has been, 17 Be not You to me for a terror, My hope [are] You in a day of evil." 18 Let my pursuers be ashamed, and let not me be ashamed--me! Let them be affrighted, and let not me be affrighted--me! Bring in on them a day of evil, And a second time [with] destruction destroy them." 19 Thus said Yahweh unto me:`Go, and you have stood in the gate of the sons of the people, by which kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all gates of Jerusalem, 20 and you have said unto them:Hear a word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all inhabitants of Jerusalem, who are coming in by these gates, 21 Thus said Yahweh, Take you heed to yourselves, And you bear not a burden on the day of rest, Nor have you brought [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem." 22 Nor do you take out a burden from your houses on the day of rest, Yea, any work you do not do, And you have sanctified the day of rest, As I have commanded your fathers." 23 And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction." 24 And it has been, if you certainly hearken unto Me, An affirmation of Yahweh, So as not to bring in a burden By the gates of this city on the day of rest, And to sanctify the day of rest, So as not to do in it any work--" 25 Then entered by the gates of this city have kings and princes, Sitting on the throne of David, Riding in a chariot, and on horses, They, and their princes, the man of Judah, And inhabitants of Jerusalem, And this city has remained to the eon." 26 And they have come in from cities of Judah, And from suburbs of Jerusalem, And from the land of Benjamin, And from the low country, And from the hill-country, and from the south, Bringing in burnt-offering, and sacrifice, And present, and frankincense, And bringing praise [to] the house of Yahweh." 27 And if you do not hearken unto me to sanctify the day of rest, And so as not to bear a burden, And to come in at the gates of Jerusalem on the day of rest, Then I have kindled a fire in its gates, And it has consumed the high places of Jerusalem, And it is not quenched!'"