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The One Who Trusts in Humankind Contrasted With the One Who Trusts in Yahweh

Thus says Yahweh,

“Cursed is the person who trusts in humankind
    and makes flesh his strength,[a]
    and turns aside his heart from Yahweh.
And he will be like a juniper in the wilderness,[b]
    and he will not see when good comes,
and he will dwell in the parched places in the desert,[c]
    in a land of salt flats,[d] where no one lives.
Blessed be the person who trusts in Yahweh,
    and Yahweh is his trust.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:5 Literally “arm”
  2. Jeremiah 17:6 Or “Arabah”
  3. Jeremiah 17:6 Or “wilderness”
  4. Jeremiah 17:6 Hebrew “salt flat”