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Jeremiah Chapter 17

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JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 17

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;
Proverbs 3:3, Proverbs 3:3, 2 Corinthians 3:3, 2 Corinthians 3:3, Proverbs 7:3
2while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.
2 Chronicles 24:18, 2 Chronicles 24:18, Jeremiah 2:20, Jeremiah 2:20, 2 Chronicles 33:3
3My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.
Jeremiah 15:13, Jeremiah 15:13, Jeremiah 26:18, 2 Kings 24:13, Jeremiah 26:18
4You, even of yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you do not know: for you have kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever."
Jeremiah 15:14, Jeremiah 15:14, Lamentations 5:2, Mark 9:43, Mark 9:49
5Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the Lord.
Psalms 118:8, Psalms 118:9, Psalms 118:8, Psalms 118:9, Psalms 146:3
6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Job 20:17, Job 20:17, Psalms 1:4, Deuteronomy 29:23, Psalms 1:4
7Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose trust the Lord is.
Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 26:4, Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 26:4, Psalms 34:8
8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Psalms 1:3, Psalms 1:3, Isaiah 58:11, Isaiah 58:11, Ezekiel 47:12
9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Matthew 15:19
10I, 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.
1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Samuel 16:7, Romans 8:27, Romans 8:27, Revelation 2:23
11As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool."
Proverbs 28:20, Proverbs 28:20, Proverbs 21:6, Proverbs 21:6, Jeremiah 22:17
12"A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
Psalms 96:6, Psalms 96:6, Jeremiah 3:17, Ezekiel 43:7, Jeremiah 3:17
13Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring 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 you are my praise.
Psalms 6:2, Psalms 6:2, Deuteronomy 32:39, Deuteronomy 32:39, Psalms 106:47
15Behold, they tell me, 'Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come now.'
Isaiah 5:19, Isaiah 5:19, Jeremiah 20:7, Jeremiah 20:8, Ezekiel 12:27
16As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.
Acts 20:20, Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 4:20, Acts 20:27, Acts 20:20
17Do not be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.
Nahum 1:7, Nahum 1:7, Psalms 59:16, Jeremiah 16:19, Psalms 59:16
18Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of disaster, and destroy them with double destruction."
Psalms 35:4, Psalms 35:4, Jeremiah 20:11, Psalms 40:14, Jeremiah 11:20
19Thus said the Lord 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;
Jeremiah 26:2, Jeremiah 7:2, Jeremiah 26:2, Jeremiah 7:2, Proverbs 8:1
20and tell them, 'Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, 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 says the Lord, "Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
Numbers 15:32, Numbers 15:36, Nehemiah 13:15, Nehemiah 13:21, Numbers 15:32
22neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day holy, neither do any work: but make 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 listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
Proverbs 29:1, Proverbs 29:1, Jeremiah 11:10, Jeremiah 19:15, Jeremiah 7:24
24It shall 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;
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 on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever.
Jeremiah 22:4, Jeremiah 22:4, Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 9:7, Jeremiah 33:21
26They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to 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 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 will I kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces 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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