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Jeremiah 17:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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 17:4

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2 Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.

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.

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.”

5 The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the LORD.

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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Jeremiah 15:14

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"I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you.”"

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Jeremiah 16:13

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"Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’"

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Deuteronomy 31:29

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"For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”"

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Deuteronomy 28:20

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"The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me."

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Lamentations 5:2

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"Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens."

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Isaiah 5:25

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"Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out."

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From This Chapter

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 17:5

"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."

Jeremiah 17:7

"“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose confidence is in the LORD."

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