Jeremiah 17:5-8

English Standard Version

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.”

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Jeremiah 17:5 Hebrew arm

Deuteronomy 30:15-19

English Standard Version

¹⁵“See, ^(A)I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. ¹⁶If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God^[a] that I command you today, ^(B)by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules,^[b] then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. ¹⁷But if ^(C)your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, ¹⁸^(D)I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. ¹⁹I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, ^(E)blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,