Jeremiah 17:5–15

⁵Thus says the Lord:

“Cursed is the man who trusts in man

and makes flesh his arm,

whose heart turns away from the Lord.

⁶He is like a shrub in the desert,

and shall not see any good come.

He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,

in an uninhabited salt land.

⁷“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,

whose trust is the Lord.

⁸He is like a tree planted by water,

that sends out its roots by the stream,

and does not fear when heat comes,

for its leaves remain green,

and is not anxious in the year of drought,

for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things,

and desperately corrupt;

who can understand it?

¹⁰“I the Lord search the mind

and try the heart,

to give to every man according to his ways,

according to the fruit of his doings.”

¹¹Like the partridge that gathers a brood which she did not hatch,

so is he who gets riches but not by right;

in the midst of his days they will leave him,

and at his end he will be a fool.

¹²A glorious throne set on high from the beginning

is the place of our sanctuary.

¹³O Lord, the hope of Israel,

all who forsake thee shall be put to shame;

those who turn away from thee shall be written in the earth,

for they have forsaken the Lord,

the fountain of living water.

¹⁴Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;

save me, and I shall be saved;

for thou art my praise.

¹⁵Behold, they say to me,

“Where is the word of the Lord?

Let it come!”