Jeremiah 17:11-13

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¹¹Sometimes a bird will hatch an egg that it did not lay.
Those who cheat to get money are like that bird.
But when their lives are half finished, they will lose the money.
At the end of their lives, it will be clear that they were fools.”

¹²From the very beginning, our Temple
    has been a glorious throne for God.
    It is a very important place.
¹³Lord, you are the hope of Israel.
    You are like a spring of living water.
Those who stop following the Lord
    will have a very short life.^[a]

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 17:13 will have a very short life Literally, “he will be written in the dirt.” This might mean that a person’s name was written on a list of people who would soon die, or that a person’s life will soon be gone—like a name written in the sand.