Jeremiah 17:11-13

New Catholic Bible

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.

¹² A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning:
    such is the shrine of our sanctuary.
¹³ O Lord, you are the hope of Israel;
    all those who abandon you will be put to shame.
Those who turn away from you
    will have their names inscribed in the netherworld
because they have forsaken the Lord,
    the source of living water.