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.
15. Hear how they keep challenging me, “Where is the word of the Lord?Let it come! ”
16. But I have not run away from being Your shepherd,and I have not longed for the fatal day. You know my words were spoken in Your presence.