Jeremiah 17:4-6

International Standard Version

⁴ You will let go of your inheritance
    which I gave you,
and I’ll make you serve your enemies
    in a land that you don’t know.
For with my anger you have started a fire
    that will burn forever.

⁵ This is what the Lord says:
“Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind,
    who makes flesh his strength,
        and whose heart turns away from the Lord.
⁶ He will be like a bush in the desert,
    and he won’t see when good comes.
He will dwell in parched places in the wilderness,^[a]
    a land of salt, without inhabitants.