Jeremiah 17:1-8

New King James Version

Judah’s Sin and Punishment

17 “The sin of Judah is ^(A)written with a ^(B)pen of iron;
With the point of a diamond it is ^(C)engraved
On the tablet of their heart,
And on the horns of your altars,
²While their children remember
Their altars and their ^(D)wooden^[a] images
By the green trees on the high hills.
³O My mountain in the field,
I will give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures,
And your high places of sin within all your borders.
⁴And you, even yourself,
Shall let go of your heritage which I gave you;
And I will cause you to serve your enemies
In ^(E)the land which you do not know;
For ^(F)you have kindled a fire in My anger which shall burn forever.”

⁵Thus says the Lord:

^(G)“Cursed is the man who trusts in man
And makes ^(H)flesh his ^[b]strength,
Whose heart departs from the Lord.
⁶For he shall be ^(I)like a shrub in the desert,
And ^(J)shall not see when good comes,
But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
^(K)In a salt land which is not inhabited.

⁷“Blessed^(L) is the man who trusts in the Lord,
And whose hope is the Lord.
⁸For he shall be ^(M)like a tree planted by the waters,
Which spreads out its roots by the river,
And will not ^[c]fear when heat comes;
But its leaf will be green,
And will not be anxious in the year of drought,
Nor will cease from yielding fruit.

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 17:2 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
Jeremiah 17:5 Lit. arm
Jeremiah 17:8 Qr., Tg. see

2 Peter 2:12-17

New King James Version

Depravity of False Teachers

¹²But these, ^(A)like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, ¹³^(B)and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure ^(C)to ^[a]carouse in the daytime. ^(D)They are spots and blemishes, ^[b]carousing in their own deceptions while ^(E)they feast with you, ¹⁴having eyes full of ^[c]adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. ^(F)They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. ¹⁵They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of ^(G)Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; ¹⁶but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.