These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jeremiah 17
Tanakh 27 verses
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The sin of is written With a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond; It is graven upon the tablet of their , And upon the horns of your altars.
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- 2 Like the symbols of their sons are their altars, And their Asherim are by the leafy trees, Upon the high hills.
- 3 O thou that sittest upon the mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, And thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.
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And thou, even of thyself, shalt discontinue from thy heritage That I gave thee; And I will cause thee to thine enemies In the land which thou knowest not; For ye have kindled a fire in My nostril, Which shall burn for ever.
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Jeremiah 15:14 Jeremiah 7:20 Jeremiah 16:13 Isaiah 14:3 Isaiah 5:25 Jeremiah 27:12-13 Ezekiel 21:31 Jeremiah 5:29 Jeremiah 12:7 Leviticus 26:31-34 Isaiah 30:33 Mark 9:43-49 Deuteronomy 28:47-48 Deuteronomy 4:26-27 Isaiah 66:24 2 Kings 25:21 Joshua 23:15-16 Deuteronomy 28:25 Nahum 1:5-6 1 Kings 9:7 Jeremiah 25:9-11 Deuteronomy 29:26-28 Lamentations 1:12 Ezekiel 20:47-48 Lamentations 5:2 Nehemiah 9:28 Deuteronomy 32:22-25 - 5 Thus saith : Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, And maketh his arm, And whose departeth from .
- 6 For he shall be like a tamarisk in the desert, And shall not see when good cometh; But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, A salt land and not inhabited.
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Blessed is the man that trusteth in , And whose trust is.
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For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, And that spreadeth out its roots by the river, And shall not see when heat cometh, But its foliage shall be luxuriant; And shall not be anxious in the year of drought, Neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
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- 9 The is deceitful above all things, And it is exceeding weak—who can it?
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I search the , I try the reins, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.
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Jeremiah 32:19 Jeremiah 11:20 Romans 8:27 1 Samuel 16:7 Psalm 62:12 Jeremiah 20:12 Revelation 2:23 Psalm 139:23-24 1 Chronicles 28:9 Galatians 6:7-8 1 Chronicles 29:17 Isaiah 3:10-11 Proverbs 17:3 Romans 2:6-8 Revelation 22:12 Jeremiah 21:14 2 Chronicles 6:30 Psalm 139:1-2 Hebrews 4:12-13 John 2:25 Psalm 7:9 Romans 6:21 Revelation 20:12 Micah 7:13 Matthew 16:27 -
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As the partridge that broodeth over young which she hath not brought forth, So is he that getteth riches, and not by right; In the midst of his days he shall leave them, And at his end he shall be a fool.
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Proverbs 28:8 Luke 12:20 Proverbs 21:6 Proverbs 15:27 Proverbs 28:20 Habakkuk 2:6-12 Proverbs 28:22 Psalm 55:23 Jeremiah 22:17 Ecclesiastes 5:13-16 Zephaniah 1:9 Proverbs 13:11 Jeremiah 22:13 2 Peter 2:3 Proverbs 28:16 Ezekiel 22:12-13 Zechariah 5:4 Proverbs 23:5 Titus 1:11 James 5:3-5 Jeremiah 5:27-28 Amos 3:10 Hosea 12:7-8 Micah 2:9 Zechariah 7:9-13 Matthew 23:13 Isaiah 1:23-24 Micah 6:10-12 1 Timothy 6:9 Proverbs 1:18-19 Micah 2:1-2 2 Peter 2:14 Amos 8:4-6 Malachi 3:5 Micah 7:3 - 12 Thou throne of , on high from the beginning, Thou place of our ,
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Thou of , ! All that forsake Thee shall be ashamed; They that depart from Thee shall be written in the earth, Because they have forsaken , The fountain of living waters.
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Jeremiah 14:8 Isaiah 1:28 Psalm 73:27 Joel 3:16 John 8:6-8 Luke 10:20 Isaiah 66:5 Psalm 36:8-9 John 4:10 Jeremiah 2:13 John 4:14 Jeremiah 2:17 Revelation 7:17 Proverbs 10:7 Ezekiel 36:32 Psalm 22:4 Proverbs 14:14 Daniel 12:2 1 Timothy 1:1 Ezekiel 16:63 Jeremiah 2:26-27 Psalm 97:7 Jeremiah 17:17 Revelation 21:6 Revelation 22:1 Acts 28:20 John 7:37-38 Jeremiah 17:5 Revelation 22:17 Revelation 20:15 Isaiah 65:11-14 Isaiah 45:16-17 - 14 Heal me, O , and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved; For Thou art my .
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Behold, they say unto me: ‘Where is the of ? let it come now.’
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- 16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after Thee; Neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest it; That which came out of my lips was manifest before Thee.
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Be not a ruin unto me; Thou art my refuge in the day of evil.
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- 18 Let them be ashamed that persecute me, but let not me be ashamed; Let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; Bring upon them the day of evil, And destroy them with double destruction.
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Thus said unto me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of ;
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and say unto them: Hear ye the of , ye kings of , and all , and all the inhabitants of , that enter in by these gates;
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- 21 thus saith : Take heed for the sake of your souls, and bear no burden on the day, nor bring it in by the gates of ;
- 22 neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the day, neither do ye any work; but hallow ye the day, as I commanded your fathers;
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but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not , nor receive instruction.
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Proverbs 29:1 Jeremiah 11:10 Jeremiah 19:15 Zechariah 7:11-12 Jeremiah 32:33 Isaiah 48:4 Zephaniah 3:7 Ezekiel 20:21 Acts 7:51 Jeremiah 7:24-26 Proverbs 1:3 Proverbs 8:10 John 3:19-21 Ezekiel 20:13 Jeremiah 16:11-12 Psalm 50:17 Jeremiah 6:8 Jeremiah 35:15 Proverbs 5:12 Proverbs 1:5 Ezekiel 20:16 Jeremiah 7:28 - 24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto Me, saith , to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the day, but to hallow the day, to do no work therein;
- 25 then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of , riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of , and the inhabitants of ; and this city shall be inhabited for ever.
- 26 And they shall come from the cities of , and from the places round about , and from the land of , and from the Lowland, and from the mountains, and from the South, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, unto the house of .
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But if ye will not hearken unto Me to hallow the day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of on the day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of , and it shall not be quenched.
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2 Kings 25:9 Jeremiah 7:20 Lamentations 4:11 Jeremiah 21:14 Amos 1:14 Jeremiah 49:27 Jeremiah 52:13 Jeremiah 39:8 Zechariah 7:11-14 Ezekiel 22:8 Isaiah 1:20 Amos 2:4-5 Jeremiah 17:21-22 2 Kings 22:17 Hebrews 12:25 Jeremiah 38:21-23 Isaiah 9:18-19 Jeremiah 6:17 Jeremiah 32:29 Amos 1:4 Deuteronomy 32:22 Jeremiah 22:5 Amos 1:12 Mark 9:43-48 Ezekiel 20:47-48 Amos 1:7 Jeremiah 17:24 Jeremiah 17:4 Jeremiah 26:4-6 Isaiah 1:31 Amos 2:2 Ezekiel 16:41 Jeremiah 44:16 Amos 1:10 Jeremiah 21:12 2 Chronicles 36:19