Jer Jeremiah, chapter Book of Jeremiah, chapter 17
The sin of Judah is inscribed with an iron stylus, engraved with an adamant17:1. “Adamant”: an extremely hard stone used in the same way as diamond is today. Diamonds were unknown in Israel at that time. point, on their minds and on corners of their altars where they worship. Isa 65:6Even their children remember to worship at their pagan altars and Asherah poles, set up by the green trees and on the high hills, Jer 11:13on my mountain in the fields. I will hand over your wealth and all your valuable possessions as plunder, because of the sin committed on your pagan high places inside your country. Jer 15:13You will have to give up the land I gave you. I will have your enemies make you their slaves in an unfamiliar country for you made my anger blaze, and it will burn forever.Jer 15:14
This is what the Lord says: Cursed are those who put their confidence in human beings, who trust in human strength and give up relying on the Lord. Psa 118:8; Pro 29:25; Isa 31:1They will be like a shrub alone in the desert that isn't even aware when good things happen. It just goes on living in the dry desert, in a salt flat that's uninhabited.Isa 1:30; Jer 48:6
Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, who put their confidence in him. Psa 2:12; Pro 16:20; Isa 30:18They are like trees planted by water, sending out roots toward the stream. They don't panic when it gets hot; their leaves are always green. They don't worry during a time of drought—they go on producing fruit.Psa 1:3
The mind is more deceptive than anything else—it's incurably sick! Who can possibly understand it? Psa 64:6But I, the Lord, see what people are thinking. I examine their minds, so I can reward them depending on their attitudes and the way they behave.1Sa 16:7; 1Ch 28:9; Psa 7:9; Pro 17:3; Jer 11:20; Jer 20:12; Rev 2:23
Like a partridge hatching eggs it didn't lay is someone who makes a fortune by cheating others. Their riches will fly away at midday, and in the end they'll look like a fool.
Our Temple is a throne of glory, raised up high from the beginning. Jer 14:21Lord, you are Israel's hope. Anyone who deserts you will be disgraced. Anyone who turns their back on you will vanish like names written in the dust, for they have abandoned the Lord, the source of living water.Jer 2:13; Jer 14:8; Jhn 4:14; Jhn 8:6
Please heal me, Lord, and I'll be healed; save me, and I'll be saved, for you are the one I praise.
See how they keep on saying to me, “Where is the disaster that the Lord's predicted? Is it ever going to happen?”17:15. A colloquial expression would be, “Bring it on!”Isa 5:19
But I haven't been in a hurry to give up being your shepherd. I haven't wanted the time of trouble to come. You know that whatever I said was said in front of you.Job 32:21; 1Co 4:3
Please don't be the one who terrifies me! You are my protection in the time of trouble. Jer 16:19Bring shame on my persecutors, but not on me. Terrify them, but not me, Let them experience the time of trouble, and smash them to pieces.Jer 20:11
This is what the Lord told me: Go and stand at the main gate of the city, the one used by kings of Judah, and do the same at all the other gates of Jerusalem. Isa 29:21Tell them, Listen to the Lord's message, kings of Judah, and all you people of Judah and Jerusalem who come in through these gates.
This is what the Lord says: Pay attention, if you value your lives! Don't carry a load on the Sabbath day, and don't bring it through the gates of Jerusalem. Neh 13:19; Jhn 5:9Don't carry a load out of your houses, and don't do any work on the Sabbath day. Keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I ordered your forefathers. Exo 20:8; Ezk 20:12However, they refused to listen or pay attention. Instead they were stubborn and refused to obey or accept instruction.Jer 7:24
Listen carefully to me, says the Lord, and don't bring any load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and don't do any work on it. Isa 56:2; Isa 58:13Then kings and princes will enter through the gates of this city. They will sit on the throne of David. They will ride in chariots and on horses with their officials, accompanied by the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever. Jer 22:4People will come from the towns of Judah and everywhere around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowlands the hill country, and the Negev. They will bring burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the Lord's Temple.Jer 32:44
But if you refuse to listen to me and keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will set its gates alight with a fire that can't be put out, and it will burn down Jerusalem's fortresses.Isa 1:31; Amo 5:6; Jer 21:14