9. The heart is deceitful above all thingsand it is exceedingly corrupt.Who can know it?
10. “I, the Lord, search the mind.I try the heart,even to give every man according to his ways,according to the fruit of his doings.”
11. As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid,so is he who gets riches, and not by right.In the middle of his days, they will leave him.At his end, he will be a fool.
12. A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning,is the place of our sanctuary.
13. Lord, the hope of Israel,all who forsake you will be disappointed.Those who depart from me will be written in the earth,because they have forsaken the Lord,the spring 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. Behold, they tell me,“Where is the Lord’s word?Let it be fulfilled now.”
16. As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you.I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know.That which came out of my lips was before your face.
17. Don’t be a terror to me.You are my refuge in the day of evil.
18. Let them be disappointed who persecute me,but let not me be disappointed.Let them be dismayed,but don’t let me be dismayed.Bring on them the day of evil,and destroy them with double destruction.
19. the Lord said this to me: “Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.
20. Tell them, ‘Hear the Lord’s word, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
21. the Lord says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.
22. Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.
23. But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
24. It will happen, 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 to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;