Jeremiah 17:4-6

The Voice

⁴You’ll let this inheritance I gave you slip through your fingers. I will make you slaves to your enemies in a land you have never known because you have stirred My anger into a roaring fire that will last forever.

⁵    Cursed is the one who trusts in human strength and the abilities of mere mortals.
        His very heart strays from the Eternal.
⁶    He is like a little shrub in the desert that never grows;
        he will see no good thing come his way.
    He will live in a desert wasteland,
        a barren land of salt where no one lives.