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Chapter 17 |
| 1 | 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;
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| 2 | Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the
green trees upon the high hills. |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | Thus saith the
LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and
whose heart departeth from the LORD. |
| 6 | 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. |
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Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
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| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | 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. |
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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.
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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17 | Be not a terror unto
me: thou art my hope in the day of evil. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
