10. “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways,according to the fruit of his deeds.”
11. Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch,so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
12. A glorious throne set on high from the beginningis the place of our sanctuary.
13. O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame;those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth,for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
14. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;save me, and I shall be saved,for you are my praise.
15. Behold, they say to me,“Where is the word of the Lord?Let it come!”
16. I have not run away from being your shepherd,nor have I desired the day of sickness. You know what came out of my lips;it was before your face.
17. Be not a terror to me; you are my refuge in the day of disaster.
18. Let those be put to shame who persecute me,but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed,but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of disaster;destroy them with double destruction!
19. Thus said the Lord to me: “Go and stand in the People’s Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem,
20. and say: ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates.
21. Thus says the Lord: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.
22. And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.