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Jeremiah 17:9-11
New Catholic Bible
Jeremiah 17:9-11
New Catholic Bible
9 The heart is more deceitful than any other thing,
and it is also perverse.
Who can uncover its secrets?
10 I, the Lord, search the heart
and probe the mind
to reward all according to their conduct
and as their deeds deserve.
11 Like a partridge[a] hatching eggs that it has not laid,
so is the man who amasses riches unjustly.
When his life is half completed,
they will desert him;
and when his life is at an end,
he will prove to have been a fool.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:11 The partridge that hatches the eggs of another bird will see itself abandoned by these chicks.