1. The sin of Judah is written with a style of iron, with the point of a diamond, engraven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
2. whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherahs, by the green trees, upon the high hills.
3. My mountain in the field, thy substance, all thy treasures will I give for a spoil, --thy high places, because of sin throughout thy borders.
4. And of thyself thou shalt let go thine inheritance which I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in a land that thou knowest not; for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, --it shall burn for ever.
5. Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that confideth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
6. And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
7. Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is.
8. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the stream, and he shall not see when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and in the year of drought he shall not be careful, neither shall he cease to yield fruit.
9. The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?
10. I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
11. As the partridge sitteth on eggs it hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches and not by right: in the midst of his days shall he leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.
12. A throne of glory, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
13. Thou hope of Israel, Jehovah! all that forsake thee shall be ashamed. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth; because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.