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O [Jerusalem] My mountain in the field, I will give your wealth and all your treasures to the spoil and your high places for sin [as the price of your sin] throughout all your territory.

And you, through your own fault, will loosen your hand and discontinue from your heritage which I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for you have kindled a fire in My anger which will burn throughout the ages.

Thus says the Lord: Cursed [with great evil] is the strong man who trusts in and relies on frail man, making weak [human] flesh his arm, and whose mind and heart turn aside from the Lord.

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My mountain in the land
    and your[a] wealth and all your treasures
I will give away as plunder,(A)
    together with your high places,(B)
    because of sin throughout your country.(C)
Through your own fault you will lose
    the inheritance(D) I gave you.
I will enslave you to your enemies(E)
    in a land(F) you do not know,
for you have kindled my anger,
    and it will burn(G) forever.”

This is what the Lord says:

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,(H)
    who draws strength from mere flesh
    and whose heart turns away from the Lord.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:3 Or hills / and the mountains of the land. / Your