Jeremiah 17:5-12
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5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
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6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
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7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
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8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
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9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
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11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
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12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.