1. “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron;With the point of a diamond it is engravedOn the tablet of their heart,And on the horns of your altars,
2. While their children rememberTheir altars and their wooden imagesBy the green trees on the high hills.
3. O 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.
4. And you, even yourself,Shall let go of your heritage which I gave you;And I will cause you to serve your enemiesIn the land which you do not know;For you have kindled a fire in My anger which shall burn forever.”
5. Thus says the Lord:“Cursed is the man who trusts in manAnd makes flesh his strength,Whose heart departs from the Lord.
6. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,And shall not see when good comes,But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,In a salt land which is not inhabited.
7. “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,And whose hope is the Lord.
8. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,Which spreads out its roots by the river,And will not 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.
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,According to the fruit of his doings.