The sin of
Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the
point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table
of their heart, and upon the horns of your
altars;
02 Whilst their children remember their altars
and their groves by the green trees upon the high
hills.
03 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy
substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and
thy high places for sin, throughout all thy
borders.
04 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from
thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause
thee to serve thine enemies in the land which
thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in
mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
05 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that
trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and
whose heart departeth from the Lord.
06 For he shall be like the heath in the desert,
and shall not see when good cometh; but shall
inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in
a salt land and not inhabited.
07 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord,
and whose hope the Lord is.
08 For he shall be as a tree planted by the
waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the
river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but
her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful
in the year of drought, neither shall cease from
yielding fruit.
09 The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins,
even to give every man according to his ways, and
according to the fruit of his doings.
11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth
them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by
right, shall leave them in the midst of his days,
and at his end shall be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is
the place of our sanctuary.
13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake
thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from
me shall be written in the earth, because they
have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living
waters.
14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save
me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of
the Lord? let it come now.
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16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a
pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the
woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of
my lips was right before thee.
17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in
the day of evil.
18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but
let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed,
but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the
day of evil, and destroy them with double
destruction.
19 Thus said the Lord unto me; Go and stand in
the gate of the children of the people, whereby
the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they
go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the
Lord, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by
these gates:
21 Thus saith the Lord; Take heed to yourselves,
and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring
it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your
houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any
work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I
commanded your fathers.
23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their
ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might
not hear, nor receive instruction.
24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently
hearken unto me, saith the Lord, to bring in no
burden through the gates of this city on the
sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no
work therein;
25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this
city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of
David, riding in chariots and on horses, they,
and their princes, the men of Judah, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall
remain for ever.
26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah,
and from the places about 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 meat offerings,
and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise,
unto the house of the Lord.
27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow
the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even
entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the
sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the
gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
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