1 "Judah's sin is written with an iron stylus; with a diamond point it is carved on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of your altars,
2 as their sons remember their altars and their Asherim by the leafy trees, on the high hills,
3 my mountain in the open country. Your wealth, all your treasures, I will give as plunder, your high places, because of sin, throughout your borders.
4 And you will let go, through your own fault, of your inheritance which I gave you; I will make you serve your enemies in a land you do not know; for you have lit a fire in my anger that will burn forever."
5 Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns aside from the LORD.
6 He will be like a bush in the desert; he will not see when good comes; he will live in the scorched places of the wilderness, in a salt land with no one living in it.
7 "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and the LORD is his confidence.
8 He will be like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots by the stream; it does not see when heat comes, and its leaves stay lush; in a year of drought it does not worry, and it does not cease from bearing fruit."
9 The heart is more deceitful than all else, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
10 "I, the LORD, search the heart and examine the inmost being, to give each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
11 A partridge that hatches what it did not lay: so is the one who gains wealth unjustly; in the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
12 A throne of glory, on high from the first, is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, Hope of Israel, all who abandon you will be shamed; those who turn away from me will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
14 Heal me, LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for you are my praise.
15 Look, they are saying to me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come, then!"
16 But I have not run away from being a shepherd after you, nor have I longed for the day of disaster; you know. What came out of my lips was in front of your face.
17 Do not become a terror to me; you are my refuge in the day of evil.
18 Let my pursuers be ashamed, but let me not be ashamed; let them be shattered, but let me not be shattered. Bring on them the day of evil, and with a double shattering shatter them.
19 Thus the LORD said to me: "Go and stand in the gate of the sons of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem,
20 and say to them, 'Hear the word of the LORD, kings of Judah and all Judah and all inhabitants of Jerusalem who come in through these gates.
21 Thus says the LORD: Be careful, for your lives' sake, not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or bring it in through the gates of Jerusalem.
22 Do not take a load out of your houses on the Sabbath day or do any work; keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.
23 But they did not listen or turn their ear; they hardened their neck so as not to hear and not to accept discipline.
24 Yet if you truly listen to me, declares the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy by doing no work on it,
25 then through the gates of this city will come kings and officials sitting on David's throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will be inhabited forever.
26 And they will come from the towns of Judah and the surroundings of Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country and from the Negev, bringing burnt offering and sacrifice, grain offering and frankincense, and bringing thanksgiving to the house of the LORD.
27 But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy and not carry a load as you come in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will set fire to its gates, and it will consume the strongholds of Jerusalem and will not be put out.'"