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Jeremiah 17:5-11

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5This is what the Lord says:

“Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind

And makes flesh his strength,

And whose heart turns away from the Lord.

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

And will not see when prosperity comes,

But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,

A land of salt that is not inhabited.

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

And whose trust is the Lord.

8“For he will be like a tree planted by the water

That extends its roots by a stream,

And does not fear when the heat comes;

But its leaves will be green,

And it will not be anxious in a year of drought,

Nor cease to yield fruit.

9“The heart is more deceitful than all else

And is desperately sick;

Who can understand it?

10“I, the Lord, search the heart,

I test the mind,

To give to each person according to his ways,

According to the results of his deeds.

11“As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid,

So is a person who makes a fortune, but unjustly;

In the middle of his days it will abandon him,

And in the end he will be a fool.”