¹ The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven on the table of their heart, and on the horns of your altars; ² Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees on the high hills. ³ O my mountain in the field, I will give your wealth and all your treasures to the spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders. ⁴ And you, even yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you know not: for you have kindled a fire in mine anger, which will burn for ever. ⁵ So says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD. ⁶ For he will be like the heath in the desert, and will not see when good comes; but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. ⁷ Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. ⁸ For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out her roots by the river, and will not see when heat comes, but her leaf will be green; and will not be careful in the year of drought, neither will cease from producing fruit. ⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? ¹⁰ I the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. ¹¹ As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, will leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end will be a fool. ¹² A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. ¹³ O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that abandon you will be ashamed, and those depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living waters. ¹⁴ Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved: for you are my praise. ¹⁵ See, they say to me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now. ¹⁶ As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow you: neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you. ¹⁷ Be not a terror to me: you are my hope in the day of evil. ¹⁸ Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. ¹⁹ So said the LORD to me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; ²⁰ And say to them, Hear you the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates ²¹ So says the LORD; Take care to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; ²² Neither carry forward a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do you any work, but holy you the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. ²³ But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction. ²⁴ And it will come to pass, if you diligently listen to me, says the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but holy the sabbath day, to do no work in it; ²⁵ Then will there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city will remain forever. ²⁶ And they will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, to the house of the LORD. ²⁷ But if you will not listen to me to holy the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it will not be quenched.