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1Judah's sin is written with an iron stylus.
It is engraved with a diamond tip on the tablet of their hearts
and on the horns of their altars.
2Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles,[#17:2 Wooden poles were set up to worship the Canaanite fertility goddess Asherah.]
beside every green tree on the high hills,
3and on the mountains in the countryside.
I will turn all your wealth into plunder
because of the sin you committed on the high places
throughout all your territory.
4You will lose your inheritance that I gave you,
and I will make you serve your enemies in a land you do not know.
You have started a fire in my anger that will burn forever.
5This is what the Lord says.
Cursed is anyone who trusts in mankind,
who seeks his strength from human flesh,
and who turns his heart away from the Lord .
6He will be like a juniper bush in the wasteland.
He will not see good things when they come.
He lives in a dry place in the wilderness,
in a salty land where no one lives.
7But blessed is anyone who trusts in the Lord ,
whose confidence is in him.
8He will be like a tree planted by water.
It sends out its roots to the stream.
It does not fear the heat when it comes.
Its leaves will remain green.
It is not concerned about a time of drought.
It does not stop producing fruit.
9The heart is more deceitful than anything.
It is beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
10I, the Lord , am the one who searches the heart
and examines the mind,
to reward a man according to what he has done,
according to what his deeds deserve.
11Those who accumulate a fortune unjustly
are like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay.
Midway through life their fortune will be lost,
and in the end they will be exposed as fools.
12The place of our sanctuary is a glorious throne,
exalted from the beginning.
13You are the hope of Israel, Lord .
All who forsake you will be put to shame.
Those who turn away from you will be written in the earth,
because they have forsaken the Lord , the spring of living water.
14Heal me, Lord , and I will be healed.
Save me, and I will be saved,
for you are the one I praise.
15They say to me,
“Where is the word of the Lord ? Let it come!”
16I have not tried to run away from being your shepherd,[#17:16 Some ancient versions read this line as a parallel to the following line: I have not run after you for the sake of disaster .]
nor have I wanted to bring the day of incurable pain.
You are aware of everything that comes out of my lips.
It is not hidden from you.
17Do not be a terror to me.
You are my refuge in the day of disaster.
18Let my persecutors be put to shame,
but do not let me be put to shame.
Let them be terrified,
but do not let me be terrified.
Bring on them the day of disaster
and destroy them with double destruction.
19This is what the Lord told me.