Jeremiah 17  Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

17 The sin of Judah is inscribed
with an iron stylus.^(A)
With a diamond point
it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts^(B)
and on the horns of their^[a] altars,
² while their children remember their altars
and their Asherah poles, by the green trees
on the high hills ^(C)–
³ my mountains in the countryside.
I will give up your wealth
and all your treasures as plunder^(D)
because of the sin of your high places^[b]
in all your borders.^(E)
4 You will, on your own, relinquish your inheritance
that I gave you.
I will make you serve your enemies
in a land you do not know,^(F)
for you have set my anger on fire;^(G)
it will burn for ever.

Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind.^(H)
He makes human flesh his strength,^(I)
and his heart turns from the Lord.
⁶ He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;^(J)
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.^(K)
7 The person who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence indeed is the Lord, is blessed.^(L)
8 He will be like a tree planted by water:^(M)
it sends its roots out towards a stream,
it doesn’t fear when heat comes,
and its foliage remains green.
It will not worry in a year of drought
or cease producing fruit.

⁹ The heart is more deceitful than anything else,^(N)
and incurable – who can understand it?^(O)
10 I, the Lord, examine the mind,
I test the heart^[c](P)
to give to each according to his way,
according to what his actions deserve.^(Q)
11 He who makes a fortune unjustly
is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.
In the middle of his life
his riches will abandon him,
so in the end he will be a fool.^(R)

¹⁴ Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;
save me, and I will be saved,
for you are my praise.^(X)
15 Hear how they keep challenging me,^(Y)
‘Where is the word of the Lord?
Let it come! ’
¹⁶ But I have not run away from being your shepherd,
and I have not longed for the fatal day.^(Z)
You know my words were spoken in your presence.
¹⁷ Don’t become a terror to me.
You are my refuge^(AA) in the day of disaster.
¹⁸ Let my persecutors be put to shame,^(AB)
but don’t let me be put to shame.
Let them be terrified, but don’t let me be terrified.
Bring on them the day of disaster;^(AC)
shatter them with total^[d] destruction.