"The sin of Judah is written with pen of iron;with the point of a diamond it engraved on the tablet of their heart,and on the horns of the altars,

2 While their children remember their altars and their wooden images by the green trees on the high hills.

3 O My mountain in the field,I will give as plunder your wealth,all your treasures,and your high places of sin within all your borders.

4 And you,even yourself,shall go your heritage which O gave you;and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you do not know;for you have kindled a fire in My anger which shall burn forever."

5 Thus says the LORD:"Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength,whose heart departs from the LORD.

6 For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,and shall not see when good comes,but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,in a salt land which is not inhabited.

7 "Blessed is man who trusts in the LORD,and whose hope is the LORD.

8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,which spreads out its roots by the river,and will not fear when heat comes;but its leaf will be green,and will not be anxious in the year of drought,nor will cease from yeelding fruit.

9 "The heart is decietful above all things,and desperately wicked;Who can know it?

10 I,the LORD,search the heart,I test the mind,even to give every man according to his ways,according to the fruit of his doings.

11 "As a partridge the broods but does not hatch,so is he who gets riches,but not by right ;it will leave him in the midst of his day,and at his end he will be a fool.

12 A glorious high throne from the begining is the places of our sanctuary.

13 O LORD,the hope of Israel,all who forsake You shall be ashamed."Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth,because they have forsaken the LORD,the foundation of living waters." Jeremiah 17:1-13