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5 ¶ Thus saith the LORD;
Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose
heart departeth from the LORD.
6 For he shall be
like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall
inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
7
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
8 For he shall be
as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the
river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green;
and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from
yielding fruit.
9 The heart is deceitful
above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search
the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways,
and according to the fruit of his doings.
11 As the partridge
sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and
not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end
shall be a fool.
12 ¶ A glorious high
throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope
of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart
from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD,
the fountain of living waters.
14 Heal me, O LORD,
and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. |
