Jeremiah 17:5-18

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

⁷^(E)“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
    ^(F)whose trust is the Lord.
⁸^(G)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^(H)“I the Lord search the heart
    ^(I)and test the mind,^[b]
^(J)to give every man according to his ways,
    according to the fruit of his deeds.”

¹¹Like the ^(K)partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch,
so is ^(L)he who gets riches but not by justice;
^(M)in the midst of his days they will leave him,
^(N)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, ^(O)the hope of Israel,
    ^(P)all who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you^[c] ^(Q)shall be written in the earth,
    for ^(R)they have forsaken ^(S)the Lord, the fountain of living water.

Jeremiah Prays for Deliverance

¹⁴^(T)Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;
    save me, and I shall be saved,
    for ^(U)you are my praise.
¹⁵^(V)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.
^(W)You know ^(X)what came out of my lips;
    it was before your face.
¹⁷Be not a terror to me;
    ^(Y)you are my refuge in the day of disaster.
¹⁸^(Z)Let those be put to shame who persecute me,
    but let me not be put to shame;
^(AA)let them be dismayed,
    but let me not be dismayed;
^(AB)bring upon them the day of disaster;
    destroy them with double destruction!

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Footnotes

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

2 Corinthians 1:3-11

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God of All Comfort

³^(A)Blessed be the ^(B)God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and ^(C)God of all comfort, ⁴^(D)who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. ⁵For as we share abundantly in ^(E)Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.^[a] ⁶^(F)If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. ⁷Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you ^(G)share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.

⁸For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers,^[b] of ^(H)the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. ⁹Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us ^(I)rely not on ourselves ^(J)but on God ^(K)who raises the dead. ¹⁰^(L)He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. ^(M)On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. ¹¹^(N)You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf ^(O)for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.

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Footnotes

2 Corinthians 1:5 Or For as the sufferings of Christ abound for us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ
2 Corinthians 1:8 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters