4. You will, on your own, relinquish your inheritancethat I gave you.I will make you serve your enemiesin a land you do not know, for you have set My anger on fire; it will burn forever.
5. This is what the Lord says:The man who trusts in mankind, who makes human flesh his strength and turns his heart from the Lord is cursed.
6. He will be like a juniper in the Arabah; he cannot see when good comesbut dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,in a salt land where no one lives.
7. The man who trusts in the Lord,whose confidence indeed is the Lord, is blessed.
8. He will be like a tree planted by water: it sends its roots out toward a stream,it doesn’t fear when heat comes,and its foliage remains green.It will not worry in a year of droughtor cease producing fruit.
9. The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable — who can understand it?
10. I, Yahweh, examine the mind,I test the heart to give to each according to his way,according to what his actions deserve.
11. He who makes a fortune unjustlyis like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.In the middle of his dayshis riches will abandon him,so in the end he will be a fool.
12. A throne of glory on high from the beginningis the place of our sanctuary.
13. Lord, the hope of Israel, all who abandon Youwill be put to shame.All who turn away from Mewill be written in the dirt,for they have abandonedthe Lord, the fountain of living water.
14. Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;save me, and I will be saved,for You are my praise.