5 The Lord says, "I will condemn the person who turns away from me and puts his trust in man, in the strength of mortal man.
6 He is like a bush in the desert, which grows in the dry wasteland, on salty ground where nothing else grows. Nothing good ever happens to him.
7 "But I will bless the person who puts his trust in me.
8 He is like a tree growing near a stream and sending out roots to the water. It is not afraid when hot weather comes, because its leaves stay green, it has no worries when there is no rain; it keeps on bearing fruit.
9 "Who can understand the human heart? There is nothing else so deceitful; it is too sick to be healed.
10 I, the Lord, search the minds and test the hearts of men. I treat each one according to the way he lives, according to what he does."
11 The person who get money dishonestly is like a bird that hatches eggs it didn't lay. In the prime of life he will lose his riches, and in the end he is nothing but a fool.
12 Our Temple is like a glorious throne, standing on a high mountain from the beginning.
13 Lord, you are Israels's hope; all who abandon you will be put to shame. They will disappear like names written in the dust." because they have abandoned you, the Lord, the spring of fresh water.
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