NITHYAM SONGSJeremiah 17
World English Bible (WEB) • 27 verses
1“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.
RelatedProverbs 3:3 · 2 Corinthians 3:3 · Proverbs 7:3 · Leviticus 4:25 · Job 19:23-24 · Hosea 12:11
2Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.
Related2 Chronicles 24:18 · Jeremiah 2:20 · Isaiah 17:8 · Judges 3:7 · Isaiah 1:29 · 2 Chronicles 33:3
3My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.
RelatedJeremiah 15:13 · Jeremiah 26:18 · 2 Kings 24:13 · Isaiah 39:4-6 · Micah 1:5-7 · Jeremiah 52:15-20
4You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”
RelatedJeremiah 15:14 · Lamentations 5:2 · Jeremiah 7:20 · Mark 9:43-49 · Isaiah 5:25 · Jeremiah 27:12-13
5The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
RelatedPsalms 118:8-9 · Psalms 146:3-4 · Isaiah 2:22 · 2 Chronicles 32:8 · Isaiah 31:1-9 · Isaiah 30:1-7
6For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.
7“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose confidence is in the LORD.
8For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
9The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
RelatedMark 7:21-22 · Matthew 15:19 · Ecclesiastes 9:3 · Proverbs 28:26 · Hebrews 3:12 · Genesis 6:5
10“I, the LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
Related1 Samuel 16:7 · Romans 8:27 · Jeremiah 11:20 · Revelation 2:23 · Hebrews 4:12-13 · Psalms 139:23-24
11As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.
RelatedProverbs 28:20 · Proverbs 21:6 · Jeremiah 22:17 · Jeremiah 22:13 · Proverbs 28:8 · Proverbs 15:27
12A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
13LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living waters.
14Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.
15Behold, they ask me, “Where is the LORD’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.”
16As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
17Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.
18Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but don’t let me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
RelatedPsalms 40:14 · Psalms 35:4 · Psalms 25:2-3 · Psalms 83:17-18 · Jeremiah 20:11 · Jeremiah 11:20
19The LORD said this to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.
20Tell them, ‘Hear the LORD’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
21The LORD says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.
RelatedNehemiah 13:15-21 · Numbers 15:32-36 · John 5:9-12 · Deuteronomy 4:23 · Deuteronomy 4:15 · Deuteronomy 11:16
22Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.
RelatedEzekiel 20:12 · Exodus 20:8-10 · Isaiah 58:13 · Isaiah 56:2-6 · Exodus 16:23-29 · Deuteronomy 5:12-15
23But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
RelatedProverbs 29:1 · Acts 7:51 · Jeremiah 7:24-26 · Jeremiah 19:15 · Jeremiah 11:10 · Zechariah 7:11-12
24It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says the LORD, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;
RelatedDeuteronomy 11:13 · Jeremiah 17:21-22 · 2 Peter 1:5-10 · Exodus 15:26 · Isaiah 21:7 · Isaiah 58:13-14
25then there will enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will remain forever.
26They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the LORD’s house.
RelatedJeremiah 32:44 · Zechariah 7:7 · Jeremiah 33:13 · Psalms 107:22 · Psalms 116:17 · Jeremiah 33:11
27But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.”’”
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.