Jeremiah 17

English Standard Version

The Sin of Judah

17 “The sin of Judah is written with ^(A)a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on ^(B)the tablet of their heart, and on ^(C)the horns of their altars, ²while ^(D)their children remember their altars and their ^(E)Asherim, ^(F)beside every green tree and on the high hills, ³^(G)on the mountains in the open country. ^(H)Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory. ⁴You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, ^(I)and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, ^(J)for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”

⁵Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man ^(K)who trusts in man
    and makes flesh his strength,^[a]
    whose heart turns away from the Lord.
⁶^(L)He is like a shrub in the desert,
    ^(M)and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
    in ^(N)an uninhabited salt land.

⁷^(O)“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
    ^(P)whose trust is the Lord.
⁸^(Q)He is like a tree planted by water,
    that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
    for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
    for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately sick;
    who can understand it?
¹⁰^(R)“I the Lord search the heart
    ^(S)and test the mind,^[b]
^(T)to give every man according to his ways,
    according to the fruit of his deeds.”

¹¹Like the ^(U)partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch,
so is ^(V)he who gets riches but not by justice;
^(W)in the midst of his days they will leave him,
^(X)and at his end he will be a fool.

¹²A glorious throne set on high from the beginning
    is the place of our sanctuary.
¹³O Lord, ^(Y)the hope of Israel,
    ^(Z)all who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you^[c] ^(AA)shall be written in the earth,
    for ^(AB)they have forsaken ^(AC)the Lord, the fountain of living water.

Jeremiah Prays for Deliverance

¹⁴^(AD)Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;
    save me, and I shall be saved,
    for ^(AE)you are my praise.
¹⁵^(AF)Behold, they say to me,
    “Where is the word of the Lord?
    Let it come!”
¹⁶I have not run away from being your shepherd,
    nor have I desired the day of sickness.
^(AG)You know ^(AH)what came out of my lips;
    it was before your face.
¹⁷Be not a terror to me;
    ^(AI)you are my refuge in the day of disaster.
¹⁸^(AJ)Let those be put to shame who persecute me,
    but let me not be put to shame;
^(AK)let them be dismayed,
    but let me not be dismayed;
^(AL)bring upon them the day of disaster;
    destroy them with double destruction!

Keep the Sabbath Holy

¹⁹Thus said the Lord to me: “Go and stand in the People's Gate, by which ^(AM)the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, ²⁰and say: ‘Hear the word of the Lord, ^(AN)you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates. ²¹Thus says the Lord: Take care for the sake of your lives, and ^(AO)do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. ²²And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath ^(AP)or do any work, but ^(AQ)keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers. ²³Yet ^(AR)they did not listen or incline their ear, ^(AS)but stiffened their neck, that they ^(AT)might not hear and receive instruction.

²⁴“‘But if you listen to me, declares the Lord, and ^(AU)bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but ^(AV)keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it, ²⁵then ^(AW)there shall enter by the gates of this city kings and princes who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city shall be inhabited forever. ²⁶And people shall come from ^(AX)the cities of Judah ^(AY)and the places around Jerusalem, ^(AZ)from the land of Benjamin, ^(BA)from the Shephelah, from the hill country, ^(BB)and from ^(BC)the Negeb, bringing ^(BD)burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and ^(BE)bringing thank offerings to the house of the Lord. ²⁷But if you do not listen to me, to ^(BF)keep the Sabbath day holy, ^(BG)and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will ^(BH)kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall ^(BI)devour the palaces of Jerusalem and ^(BJ)shall not be quenched.’”

Footnotes

Jeremiah 17:5 Hebrew arm
Jeremiah 17:10 Hebrew kidneys
Jeremiah 17:13 Hebrew me

Mark 3

English Standard Version

A Man with a Withered Hand

3 ^(A)Again ^(B)he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. ²And ^(C)they watched Jesus,^[a] to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. ³And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” ⁴And he said to them, ^(D)“Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. ⁵And he ^(E)looked around at them with anger, grieved at ^(F)their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” ^(G)He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ⁶^(H)The Pharisees went out and immediately ^(I)held counsel with ^(J)the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

A Great Crowd Follows Jesus

⁷^(K)Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and ^(L)a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea ⁸and Jerusalem and ^(M)Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around ^(N)Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. ⁹And he told his disciples to ^(O)have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they ^(P)crush him, ¹⁰for ^(Q)he had healed many, so that all who had ^(R)diseases pressed around him ^(S)to touch him. ¹¹^(T)And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they ^(U)fell down before him and cried out, “You are ^(V)the Son of God.” ¹²And ^(W)he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

The Twelve Apostles

¹³^(X)And he went up on the mountain and called to him those ^(Y)whom he desired, and they came to him. ¹⁴^(Z)And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach ¹⁵^(AA)and have authority to cast out demons. ¹⁶He appointed the twelve: ^(AB)Simon (to whom ^(AC)he gave the name Peter); ¹⁷^(AD)James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); ¹⁸Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and ^(AE)Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,^[b] ¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

²⁰Then he went ^(AF)home, and the crowd gathered again, ^(AG)so that they could not even eat. ²¹^(AH)And when ^(AI)his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He ^(AJ)is out of his mind.”

Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit

²²And ^(AK)the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, ^(AL)“He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.” ²³^(AM)And he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? ²⁴If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. ²⁵And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. ²⁶And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. ²⁷But ^(AN)no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. ^(AO)Then indeed he may plunder his house.

²⁸^(AP)“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, ²⁹but whoever ^(AQ)blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”— ³⁰for they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

³¹^(AR)And his mother and his ^(AS)brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. ³²And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers^[c] are outside, seeking you.” ³³And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” ³⁴And ^(AT)looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! ³⁵^(AU)For whoever ^(AV)does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”