Jeremiah 17

²Even their children remember their altars

³My mountain in the field,

⁴You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you.

⁵The LORD says:

⁶For he will be like a bush in the desert,

⁷“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,

⁸For he will be as a tree planted by the waters,

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things

¹⁰“I, the LORD, search the mind.

¹¹As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid,

¹²A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning,

¹³LORD, the hope of Israel,

¹⁴Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed.

¹⁵Behold, they ask me,

¹⁶As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you.

¹⁷Don’t be a terror to me.

¹⁸Let them be disappointed who persecute me,

¹⁹The 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.

²⁰Tell them, ‘Hear the LORD’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

²¹The LORD says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.

²²Don’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.

²³But 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.

²⁴It 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;

²⁵then there will enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, 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.

²⁶They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the LORD’s house.

²⁷But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.”’”