Jeremiah 17

1“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.Cross-references: Lev 4:17 · Lev 4:25 · Job 19:23 · Prov 3:3 · Prov 7:3 · Hos 12:11 · +1 more

2Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.Cross-references: Judg 3:7 · 2Chr 24:18 · 2Chr 33:3 · 2Chr 33:19 · Ps 78:58 · Isa 1:29 · +5 more

3My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.Cross-references: Lev 26:30 · 2Ki 24:13 · 2Ki 25:13 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 27:9 · Isa 39:4 · +11 more

4You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”Cross-references: Lev 26:31 · Deut 4:26 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:47 · Deut 29:26 · Deut 32:22 · +21 more

5Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.Cross-references: 2Chr 32:8 · Ps 18:21 · Ps 62:9 · Ps 118:8 · Ps 146:3 · Isa 2:22 · +7 more

6For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.Cross-references: Deut 29:23 · Judg 9:45 · 2Ki 7:2 · 2Ki 7:19 · Job 8:11 · Job 15:30 · +9 more

7“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.Cross-references: Ps 2:12 · Ps 34:8 · Ps 40:4 · Ps 84:12 · Ps 125:1 · Ps 146:5 · +4 more

8For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.Cross-references: Job 8:16 · Ps 1:3 · Ps 92:10 · Isa 58:11 · Jer 14:1 · Ezek 31:4 · +1 more

9The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Gen 8:21 · Job 15:14 · Ps 51:5 · Ps 53:1 · Prov 28:26 · +7 more

10“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”Cross-references: 1Sam 16:7 · 1Chr 28:9 · 1Chr 29:17 · 2Chr 6:30 · Ps 7:9 · Ps 62:12 · +19 more

11As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.Cross-references: Ps 55:23 · Prov 1:18 · Prov 13:11 · Prov 15:27 · Prov 21:6 · Prov 23:5 · +29 more

12A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.Cross-references: 2Chr 2:5 · Ps 96:6 · Ps 103:19 · Isa 6:1 · Isa 66:1 · Jer 3:17 · +7 more

13Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.Cross-references: Ps 22:4 · Ps 36:8 · Ps 73:27 · Ps 97:7 · Prov 10:7 · Prov 14:14 · +26 more

14Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.Cross-references: Deut 10:21 · Deut 32:39 · Ps 6:2 · Ps 6:4 · Ps 12:4 · Ps 60:5 · +10 more

15Behold, they ask me, “Where is Yahweh’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.”Cross-references: Isa 5:19 · Jer 20:7 · Ezek 12:22 · Ezek 12:27 · Amos 5:18 · 2Pet 3:3

16As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.Cross-references: Jer 1:4 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 9:1 · Jer 13:17 · Jer 14:17 · Jer 18:20 · +11 more

17Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.Cross-references: Job 31:23 · Ps 41:1 · Ps 59:16 · Ps 77:2 · Ps 88:15 · Jer 16:19 · +4 more

18Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but don’t let me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.Cross-references: Job 16:14 · Ps 25:2 · Ps 35:4 · Ps 35:8 · Ps 35:26 · Ps 40:14 · +10 more

19Yahweh said this to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.Cross-references: Prov 1:20 · Prov 8:1 · Prov 9:3 · Jer 7:2 · Jer 19:2 · Jer 26:2 · +3 more

20Tell them, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:Cross-references: Ps 49:1 · Jer 13:18 · Jer 19:3 · Jer 22:2 · Ezek 2:7 · Ezek 3:17 · +4 more

21Yahweh says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.Cross-references: Num 15:32 · Deut 4:9 · Deut 4:15 · Deut 4:23 · Deut 11:16 · Josh 23:11 · +9 more

22Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.Cross-references: Gen 2:2 · Ex 16:23 · Ex 20:8 · Ex 23:12 · Ex 31:13 · Lev 19:3 · +10 more

23But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.Cross-references: Ps 50:17 · Prov 1:3 · Prov 1:5 · Prov 5:12 · Prov 8:10 · Prov 29:1 · +16 more

24It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says Yahweh, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Deut 11:13 · Deut 11:22 · Isa 21:7 · Isa 55:2 · Isa 58:13 · +3 more

25then there will enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will remain forever.Cross-references: Ex 12:14 · Deut 17:16 · 1Sam 8:11 · 2Sam 7:16 · 2Sam 8:4 · 1Ki 9:4 · +11 more

26They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: Lev 1:1 · Josh 15:21 · Ezra 3:3 · Ezra 3:11 · Ps 107:22 · Ps 116:17 · +8 more

27But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.”’”Cross-references: Deut 32:22 · 2Ki 22:17 · 2Ki 25:9 · 2Chr 36:19 · Isa 1:20 · Isa 1:31 · +30 more