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Jeremiah Chapter 17

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JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 17

1The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond, it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of their altars.
Proverbs 3:3, Proverbs 3:3, 2 Corinthians 3:3, 2 Corinthians 3:3, Proverbs 7:3
2When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon the high mountains,
2 Chronicles 24:18, 2 Chronicles 24:18, Jeremiah 2:20, Jeremiah 2:20, 2 Chronicles 33:3
3Sacrificing in the field: I will give thy strength, and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin in all thy borders.
Jeremiah 15:13, Jeremiah 15:13, Jeremiah 26:18, 2 Kings 24:13, Jeremiah 26:18
4And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance, which I gave thee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a land which thou knowest not: because thou hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall burn for ever.
Jeremiah 15:14, Jeremiah 15:14, Lamentations 5:2, Mark 9:43, Mark 9:49
5Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
Psalms 118:8, Psalms 118:9, Psalms 118:8, Psalms 118:9, Psalms 146:3
6For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.
Job 20:17, Job 20:17, Psalms 1:4, Deuteronomy 29:23, Psalms 1:4
7Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.
Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 26:4, Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 26:4, Psalms 34:8
8And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit.
Psalms 1:3, Psalms 1:3, Isaiah 58:11, Isaiah 58:11, Ezekiel 47:12
9The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?
Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Matthew 15:19
10I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.
1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Samuel 16:7, Romans 8:27, Romans 8:27, Revelation 2:23
11As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.
Proverbs 28:20, Proverbs 28:20, Proverbs 21:6, Proverbs 21:6, Jeremiah 22:17
12A high and glorious throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctification.
Psalms 96:6, Psalms 96:6, Jeremiah 3:17, Ezekiel 43:7, Jeremiah 3:17
13O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth: because they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.
Revelation 7:17, Revelation 7:17, John 7:37, John 7:38, John 7:37
14Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed: save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Psalms 6:2, Psalms 6:2, Deuteronomy 32:39, Deuteronomy 32:39, Psalms 106:47
15Behold they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord? let it come.
Isaiah 5:19, Isaiah 5:19, Jeremiah 20:7, Jeremiah 20:8, Ezekiel 12:27
16And I am not troubled, following thee for my pastor, and I have not desired the day of man, thou knowest. That which went out of my lips, hath been right in thy sight.
Acts 20:20, Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 4:20, Acts 20:27, Acts 20:20
17Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of affliction.
Nahum 1:7, Nahum 1:7, Psalms 59:16, Jeremiah 16:19, Psalms 59:16
18Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be confounded: let them be afraid, and let not me be afraid: bring upon them the day of affliction, and with a double destruction, destroy them.
Psalms 35:4, Psalms 35:4, Jeremiah 20:11, Psalms 40:14, Jeremiah 11:20
19Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Juda come in, and go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem:
Jeremiah 26:2, Jeremiah 7:2, Jeremiah 26:2, Jeremiah 7:2, Proverbs 8:1
20And thou shalt say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and al Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates.
Jeremiah 19:3, Jeremiah 19:3, Ezekiel 2:7, Psalms 49:1, Psalms 49:2
21Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your souls, and carry no burdens on the sabbath day: and bring them not in by the gates of Jerusalem.
Numbers 15:32, Numbers 15:36, Nehemiah 13:15, Nehemiah 13:21, Numbers 15:32
22And do not bring burdens out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
Ezekiel 20:12, Ezekiel 20:12, Exodus 20:8, Exodus 20:10, Exodus 20:8
23But they did not hear, nor incline their ear: but hardened their neck, that they might not hear me, and might not receive instruction.
Proverbs 29:1, Proverbs 29:1, Jeremiah 11:10, Jeremiah 19:15, Jeremiah 7:24
24And it shall come to pass: if you will hearken to me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burdens by the gates of this city on the sabbath day: and if you will sanctify the sabbath day, to do no work therein:
Deuteronomy 11:13, Jeremiah 17:21, Jeremiah 17:22, Deuteronomy 11:13, Jeremiah 17:21
25Then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes, sitting upon the throne of David, and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.
Jeremiah 22:4, Jeremiah 22:4, Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 9:7, Jeremiah 33:21
26And they shall come from the cities of Juda, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plains, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing holocausts, and victims, and sacrifices, and frankincense, and they shall bring in an offering into the house of the Lord.
Zechariah 7:7, Jeremiah 32:44, Jeremiah 33:13, Zechariah 7:7, Jeremiah 32:44
27But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath day, and not to carry burdens, and not to bring them in by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
2 Kings 25:9, 2 Kings 25:9, Jeremiah 7:20, Jeremiah 7:20, Jeremiah 21:14

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