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O my mountain in the open country,
    I will give your wealth, all your treasures, for spoil,
your high places, because of your sin,
    throughout all your territories.
And you will let go your hand from your inheritance[a]
    that I gave to you,
and I will make you serve your enemies
    in the land that you do not know,
for you kindled a fire in my anger,
    until eternity it will be kindled.”

The One Who Trusts in Humankind Contrasted With the One Who Trusts in Yahweh

Thus says Yahweh,

“Cursed is the person who trusts in humankind
    and makes flesh his strength,[b]
    and turns aside his heart from Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:4 Literally “you shall loose and in you from your inheritance”
  2. Jeremiah 17:5 Literally “arm”