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    Jeremiah · 27 verses

    Jeremiah 17

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    An unjust fortune hatches like a partridge’s borrowed brood: the riches desert their maker halfway through life, and the grand scheme ends with him a fool.

    Engraved hearts, borrowed eggsvv. 1–11

    Judah’s sin is not written in pencil. It is cut with iron and diamond into hearts and altar-horns, while even the children remember the altars and Asherah poles. Then the imagery changes from engraving to landscape: the man who trusts in human strength becomes a shrub in salt desert, while the man who trusts in the LORD is a green tree by water. The heart itself is deceitful beyond cure, and the unjust rich man appears as a partridge fussing over eggs that are not hers—a wonderfully specific bird to have been summoned for the occasion. The riches leave him, and the joke has no need of a further explanation.

    Written in dustvv. 12–18

    The sanctuary is called a glorious throne, and the LORD is called the hope of Israel and the fountain of living water. Those who abandon Him are put to shame; those who turn away are written in dust, which is a strikingly less permanent medium than the diamond-pointed accusation at the beginning. The speaker asks to be healed and saved, while his opponents ask when the word will arrive. He says he has not fled his shepherding and asks that the day of disaster fall upon the persecutors rather than upon him. The prayer is candid, pressed hard between public mockery and private alarm.

    The load at the gatevv. 19–27

    The LORD sends the speaker to the People's Gate and then to all the gates of Jerusalem with a command of almost comic plainness: do not carry a load through them on the Sabbath. The people, however, stiffen their necks and decline even this modest instruction. If they listen, kings, officials, Judah and Jerusalem will pass through the city, and offerings will arrive from Judah, Benjamin, the foothills, the hill country and the Negeb. If they do not, the matter escalates from a Sabbath load to an unquenchable fire consuming Jerusalem’s citadels. The chapter ends with a small bundle at a gate carrying an enormous shadow.

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    1. Jer 17:1“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

    2. Jer 17:2Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.

    3. Jer 17:3O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.

    4. Jer 17:4And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”

    5. Jer 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

    6. Jer 17:6He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

    7. Jer 17:7But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.

    8. Jer 17:8He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

    9. Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

    10. Jer 17:10I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

    11. Jer 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

    12. Jer 17:12A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

    13. Jer 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.

    14. Jer 17:14Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.

    15. Jer 17:15Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”

    16. Jer 17:16But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.

    17. Jer 17:17Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.

    18. Jer 17:18Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.

    19. Jer 17:19This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.

    20. Jer 17:20Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, all people of Judah and Jerusalem who enter through these gates.

    21. Jer 17:21This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.

    22. Jer 17:22You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.

    23. Jer 17:23Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.

    24. Jer 17:24If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,

    25. Jer 17:25then kings and princes will enter through the gates of this city. They will sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses with their officials, along with the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.

    26. Jer 17:26And people will come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, and from the foothills, the hill country, and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.

    27. Jer 17:27But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”

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    • 7Isaiah 26:3–4You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
    • 9Mark 7:21–22For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
    • 9Matthew 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
    • 7Psalms 34:8Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
    • 7Psalms 40:4Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
    • 9Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
    • 9Proverbs 28:26He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
    • 5Psalms 118:8–9It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
    • 9Hebrews 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
    • 9Genesis 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
    • 7Psalms 125:1A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.
    • 8Psalms 1:3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
    • 9James 1:14–15But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
    • 13Revelation 7:17For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
    • 5Psalms 146:3–4Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
    • 13John 4:14But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

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