KJ3 Literal Translation
Jeremiah 17
The captivity of Judah for her sin. Trust in man is cursed, in Jehovah is blessed. Jehovah is the Fountain of living waters.
1The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron pen. It is carved on the tablet of their heart with the point of a diamond, and on the horns of your altars,
2even while their sons remember their altars and their Asherahs by the green tree on the high hills.
3O My mountain in the field! I will give your wealth, all your treasures, for prey, your high places for sin throughout all your borders.
4And you, even through yourself, will let drop from your inheritance which I gave you. And I will cause you to serve your enemies in a land which you do not know. For you have kindled a fire in My anger; it will burn until the age.
5So says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and who makes flesh his arm, and who turns aside his heart from Jehovah.
6For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the dry places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.
7Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, and Jehovah is his refuge.
8For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters. It sends out its roots by the stream, and it will not fear when the heat comes; but its foliage will be green; and it is not anxious in the year of drought, and not will it cease from producing fruit.
9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is incurable; who can know it?
10I, Jehovah, search the heart I try the kidneys, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
11As a partridge broods and does not hatch, so is he who makes riches, and not with justice; it will leave him in the midst of his days, and at his end he will be a foolish one.
12A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
13The Hope of Israel is Jehovah; all who forsake You shall be ashamed. Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the Fountain of living waters.
14Heal me, O Jehovah, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved; for You are my praise.
15Behold, they say to me, Where is the Word of Jehovah? Let it come now.
16And I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You;I have not desired the woeful day. You know that the going forth of my lips was before Your face.
17Do not be a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of evil.
18Let those who persecute me be ashamed, but do not let me be ashamed. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring on them the day of evil, and break them with double breaking.
19So Jehovah said to me, Go and stand in the gate of the sons of the people, that by which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.
20And say to them, Hear the Word of Jehovah, kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all those living in Jerusalem who go in by these gates.
21So says Jehovah, Take heed for the sake of your lives, and do not lift up a burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.
22And do not carry a burden from your houses on the sabbath day, nor do any work, but keep the sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.
23But they did not obey nor stretch out their ear, but they made their neck stiff, not to hear, and not to take instruction.
24And it shall be, if listening you listen to Me, a statement of Jehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but keep the sabbath day holy, to do no work in it,
25even kings and rulers sitting on the throne of David shall enter into the gates of this city, riding on chariots and on horses, they and their rulers, the men of Judah, and those living in Jerusalem. And this city will be inhabited to the ages.
26And they will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and food offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the house of Jehovah.
27But if you will not listen to Me to keep the sabbath day holy, even to not lift up a burden and enter at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in her gates. And it shall devour the fortresses of Jerusalem, and shall not be put out.
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