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    the mountains in the open country.
Your wealth and all your treasures
    I will hand over as spoil
in repayment for all your sins
    throughout your territory.
You will be forced to surrender your heritage
    which I gave to you.
I will require you to serve your enemies
    in a land you do not know,
for my fiery anger has been kindled by you,
    and it will burn forever.

Wisdom Sayings

Thus says the Lord:
    Cursed is anyone who places his trust in human beings
and relies on human strength
    while his heart turns away 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