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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Bless Is The Person Who Puts His Trust In The Lord (Jeremiah 17:5-12) New Living and Good News Translations

NEW LIVING TRANSLATION
5    The Lord says, “I will condemn those who turn away from me and put their trust in human beings,
    in the strength of mortals.
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 people.  I treat each of them according to the way they live, according to what they do.”
11  The person who gets 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.

GOOD NEWS TRANSLATION
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 arched places in the wilderness, In a salt land which is not inhabited.
7    “Blessed is the 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 yielding fruit.
9    “The heart is deceitful 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 that broods but does not hatch, So is he who gets riches, but not by right; It will leave him in the midst of his days, And at his end he will be a fool.”
12  A glorious high throne from the beginning Is the place of our sanctuary.

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