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"Y'hudah's sin is written with an iron pen; with a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns of your altars.
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As they remember their children, so they remember their altars and their sacred poles by the green trees on the high hills.
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My mountain in the field, your wealth and all your treasures will be plundered; because of the sin of your high places throughout your territory.
4
You will relinquish your hold on your heritage which I gave you. I will make you serve your enemies in a land you do not know. For you have kindled my fiery anger, and it will burn forever."
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Here is what ADONAI says: "A curse on the person who trusts in humans, who relies on merely human strength, whose heart turns away from ADONAI.
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He will be like a tamarisk in the 'Aravah - when relief comes, it is unaffected; for it lives in the sun-baked desert, in salty, uninhabited land.
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Blessed is the man who trusts in ADONAI; ADONAI will be his security.
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He will be like a tree planted near water; it spreads out its roots by the river; it does not notice when heat comes; and its foliage is luxuriant; it is not anxious in a year of drought but keeps on yielding fruit.
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"The heart is more deceitful than anything else and mortally sick. Who can fathom it?
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I, ADONAI, search the heart; I test inner motivations; in order to give to everyone what his actions and conduct deserve."