¹The sin of Judah is written with a style of iron, with the point of a diamond, engraven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; ²whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherahs, by the green trees, upon the high hills. ³My mountain in the field, thy substance, all thy treasures will I give for a spoil, —thy high places, because of sin throughout thy borders. ⁴And of thyself thou shalt let go thine inheritance which I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in a land that thou knowest not; for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, —it shall burn for ever.

⁵Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that confideth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah. ⁶And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. ⁷Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is. ⁸For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the stream, and he shall not see when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and in the year of drought he shall not be careful, neither shall he cease to yield fruit. ⁹The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?

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