Jeremiah 17:5–15

⁵Thus said Jehovah: Cursed is the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth. ⁶And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited. ⁷Blessed is the man who trusteth in Jehovah, And whose confidence hath been Jehovah. ⁸And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit. ⁹Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable—who doth know it? ¹⁰I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings. ¹¹A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, Is one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end—he is a fool.

¹²A throne of honour on high from the beginning, The place of our sanctuary, ¹³The hope of Israel is Jehovah, All forsaking Thee are ashamed, And ‘My apostates’ in the earth are written, For they have forsaken Jehovah, A fountain of living waters. ¹⁴Heal me, O Jehovah, and I am healed, Save me, and I am saved, for my praise art Thou. ¹⁵Lo, they are saying unto me: ‘Where is the word of Jehovah? pray, let it come.’