1The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is engraved upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; 2while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills. 3O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders. 4And you, even of yourself, shall let go of your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you do not know: for you have kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever. 5Thus says Yehovah: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yehovah. 6For he shall be like the shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. 7Blessed is the man who trusts in Yehovah, and whose trust Yehovah is. 8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be anxious in the year of drought, nor shall it cease from yielding fruit. 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? 10I, Yehovah, search the mind, I test the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. 11As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool. 12A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. 13O Yehovah, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yehovah, the fountain of living waters. 14Heal me, O Yehovah, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise. 15Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of Yehovah? let it come now. 16As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face. 17Do not be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil. 18Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. 19Thus said Yehovah to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; 20and say to them, Hear the word of Yehovah, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter in by these gates: 21Thus says Yehovah, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; 22nor carry out a burden from your houses on the sabbath day, nor do any work: but hallow the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. 23But they did not hearken, nor incline their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction. 24And it shall come to pass, if you diligently hearken to me, says Yehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work on it; 25then there shall enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever. 26And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places all around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to the house of Yehovah. 27But if you will not hearken to me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.