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Jeremiah 17:14 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise. "
Jeremiah 17:14
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
12 A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
13 LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living waters.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.
15 Behold, they ask me, “Where is the LORD’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.”
16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
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Jeremiah 17:1
"“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars."
Jeremiah 17:2
"Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills."
Jeremiah 17:3
"My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders."
Jeremiah 17:4
"You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”"
Jeremiah 17:5
"The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the LORD."
Jeremiah 17:6
"For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land."
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