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Jeremiah 17:2-4
The Message
Jeremiah 17:2-4
The Message
The Heart Is Hopelessly Dark and Deceitful
17 1-2 “Judah’s sin is engraved
with a steel chisel,
A steel chisel with a diamond point—
engraved on their granite hearts,
engraved on the stone corners of their altars.
The evidence against them is plain to see:
sex-and-religion altars and sacred sex shrines
Anywhere there’s a grove of trees,
anywhere there’s an available hill.
3-4 “I’ll use your mountains as roadside stands
for giving away everything you have.
All your ‘things’ will serve as reparations
for your sins all over the country.
You’ll lose your gift of land,
The inheritance I gave you.
I’ll make you slaves of your enemies
in a far-off and strange land.
My anger is hot and blazing and fierce,
and no one will put it out.”
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Jeremiah 17:2-4
New International Version
Jeremiah 17:2-4
New International Version
2 Even their children remember
their altars and Asherah poles[a](A)
beside the spreading trees
and on the high hills.(B)
3 My mountain in the land
and your[b] wealth and all your treasures
I will give away as plunder,(C)
together with your high places,(D)
because of sin throughout your country.(E)
4 Through your own fault you will lose
the inheritance(F) I gave you.
I will enslave you to your enemies(G)
in a land(H) you do not know,
for you have kindled my anger,
and it will burn(I) forever.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:2 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
- Jeremiah 17:3 Or hills / 3 and the mountains of the land. / Your
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