Jeremiah 17

1 sin Judah to write in/on/with stylus iron in/on/with fingernail thorn to plow/plot upon tablet heart their and to/for horn altar your

[Yahweh said, “It is as though a list of] the sins [committed by the people of] Judah is engraved with an iron chisel, or engraved using the fine point of a very hard stone, on the altars [where they worship idols]. And [it is as though] this list is engraved on their inner beings!

2 like/as to remember son: child their altar their and Asherah their upon tree luxuriant upon hill [the] high

[Even] their children are happy to go to the altars [to worship their gods], and to the poles [that represent the goddess] Asherah [at which their parents worshiped], shrines that are underneath all the big trees and on [all] the high hills.

3 mountain my in/on/with land: country strength: rich your all treasure your to/for plunder to give: give high place your in/on/with sin in/on/with all border: area your

So, I will allow your enemies to capture [Zion], your holy hill, and all your wealth and your (treasures/valuable things), and [even] the shrines on all those hills, because of the sins that you people have committed throughout your land.

4 and to release and in/on/with you from inheritance your which to give: give to/for you and to serve you [obj] enemy your in/on/with land: country/planet which not to know for fire to kindle in/on/with face: anger my till forever: enduring to burn

The [wonderful] land that I gave to you will no longer belong to you. I will tell your enemies to take you to a land that you do not know about, and you will become their slaves. [I will do that] because I am extremely angry [with you]; my being angry is [like] a fire that will burn forever.”

5 thus to say LORD to curse [the] great man which to trust in/on/with man and to set: make flesh arm his and from LORD to turn aside: turn aside heart his

This is [also] what Yahweh says: “[I] will curse/condemn those who trust in human beings [to help them], those who rely on their own strength and turn away from me.

6 and to be like/as juniper in/on/with plain and not to see: see for to come (in): come good and to dwell parched in/on/with wilderness land: country/planet saltiness and not to dwell

They are like [dry] bushes in the desert, they are people who will not experience any good things. Those people will live in the barren desert in a salty area, where nothing grows.

7 to bless [the] great man which to trust in/on/with LORD and to be LORD confidence his

But I am pleased with those who trust in [me], Yahweh, and who confidently expect [me to take care of them].

8 and to be like/as tree to transplant upon water and upon stream to send: depart root his and not (to see: see *Q(K)*) for to come (in): come heat and to be leaf his luxuriant and in/on/with year drought not be anxious and not to remove from to make fruit

Those people are like [SIM] fruit trees that have been planted along a riverbank, trees that have roots that go down into the [wet ground beside] the water. They are trees whose leaves remain green when it becomes hot, trees that continue to bear fruit when there are many months in which there is no rain.

9 insidious [the] heart from all and be incurable he/she/it who? to know him

Human minds are extremely corrupt/deceitful, and you cannot change that. It is also completely impossible [RHQ] for anyone to understand that.

10 I LORD to search heart to test kidney and to/for to give: give to/for man: anyone (like/as way: conduct his *Q(K)*) like/as fruit deed his

But I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone’s inner being, and I examine what they are thinking. I will give all people rewards, what they deserve for what they have done.”

11 partridge to gather and not to beget to make: offer riches and not in/on/with justice in/on/with half (day his *Q(K)*) to leave: forsake him and in/on/with end his to be foolish

[I, Jeremiah, agree, because I know that] people who become rich by doing things that are unjust are like birds that hatch eggs that they (did not lay/stole from another nest). So, when those people have lived only half of the years [that they expect to live], their wealth will disappear. Then [other people will realize that] those rich people have been foolish.

12 throne glory height from first place sanctuary our

Yahweh, your temple is [like] a glorious throne that is still on a high hill.

13 hope Israel LORD all to leave: forsake you be ashamed (and degenerate my *Q(K)*) in/on/with land: country/planet to write for to leave: forsake fountain water alive [obj] LORD

You are the one whom [we] Israeli people confidently expect [to bless us], and all those who turn away from you will be disgraced. Their names will be written [only] in the dust, [and will soon disappear], because they have abandoned you, [who are like] [MET] a fountain where people obtain fresh water.

14 to heal me LORD and to heal to save me and to save for praise my you(m. s.)

Yahweh, [please] heal me, because [if you heal me], I will truly be healed. [If you] rescue me, I will truly be safe, because you are the [only] one whom I praise.

15 behold they(masc.) to say to(wards) me where? word LORD to come (in): come please

People often ridicule me and say, “You tell us messages that you say came from Yahweh, but (why have the things that you predicted not happened?/those predictions have not come true!)” [RHQ]

16 and I not to hasten from to pasture after you and day be incurable not to desire you(m. s.) to know exit lips my before face your to be

Yahweh, you [appointed me to take care of your people like] a shepherd [takes care of his sheep] [MET]; I have not abandoned that work, and you know that I have not [previously] wanted this time of disaster [to come to people who ridicule me]. And you know everything that I have said [MTY] [to your people].

17 not to be to/for me to/for terror refuge my you(m. s.) in/on/with day distress: harm

Do not cause me to be terrified! When disasters come/occur, you are the one to whom I will go to be safe.

18 be ashamed to pursue me and not be ashamed I to to be dismayed they(masc.) and not to to be dismayed I to come (in): bring upon them day distress: harm and second breaking to break them

[So now], cause those who (persecute me/cause me to suffer) to be ashamed and dismayed, but do not [do things to me that will] cause me to be ashamed and dismayed. Cause them to be terrified! Do to them many things that will completely destroy them!

19 thus to say LORD to(wards) me to go: went and to stand: stand in/on/with gate son: descendant/people ([the] People's (Gate) *Q(K)*) which to come (in): come in/on/with him king Judah and which to come out: come in/on/with him and in/on/with all gate Jerusalem

This is what Yahweh said to me: “Go to the city gates in Jerusalem. [First] go to the gate where the kings of Judah go in and out of the city, and [then] go to each of the [other] gates.

20 and to say to(wards) them to hear: hear word LORD king Judah and all Judah and all to dwell Jerusalem [the] to come (in): come in/on/with gate [the] these

Say to the people [at each gate], ‘You kings of Judah and everyone [else] who is living in Jerusalem and all [you other people of] Judah who enter these gates, listen to this message from Yahweh!

21 thus to say LORD to keep: careful in/on/with soul: life your and not to lift: bear burden in/on/with day [the] Sabbath and to come (in): bring in/on/with gate Jerusalem

He says, “Listen to this warning carefully! [Stop doing work] on (Sabbath/our rest) days! Stop carrying loads through these gates [on those days]!

22 and not to come out: send burden from house: home your in/on/with day [the] Sabbath and all work not to make: do and to consecrate: consecate [obj] day [the] Sabbath like/as as which to command [obj] father your

Do not carry loads out of your houses or do any [other] work on Sabbath days! Instead, cause Sabbath days to be (holy/set apart for me). I commanded your ancestors to do that,

23 and not to hear: hear and not to stretch [obj] ear their and to harden [obj] neck their to/for lest (to hear: hear *Q(K)*) and to/for lest to take: recieve discipline: instruction

but they did not listen to me or obey me. When I did things to correct them, they stubbornly [IDM] refused to pay attention to what I said or to accept it.

24 and to be if to hear: hear to hear: hear [emph?] to(wards) me utterance LORD to/for lest to come (in): bring burden in/on/with gate [the] city [the] this in/on/with day [the] Sabbath and to/for to consecrate: consecate [obj] day [the] Sabbath to/for lest to make: do (in/on/with him *Q(K)*) all work

But I say that if you obey me, and if you do not carry loads through these gates [on Sabbath days] or do any other work on Sabbath days, and if you dedicate the Sabbath days to me,

25 and to come (in): come in/on/with gate [the] city [the] this king and ruler to dwell upon throne David to ride in/on/with chariot and in/on/with horse they(masc.) and ruler their man: anyone Judah and to dwell Jerusalem and to dwell [the] city [the] this to/for forever: enduring

kings of Judah [MTY] and [their] officials will [continue to] go in and out of these gates. There will [always] be someone who is a descendant of [MTY] [King] David ruling [here] [MTY] in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates, riding in chariots and on horses, and there will be people living in this city forever.

26 and to come (in): come from city Judah and from around Jerusalem and from land: country/planet Benjamin and from [the] Shephelah and from [the] mountain: hill country and from [the] Negeb to come (in): bring burnt offering and sacrifice and offering and frankincense and to come (in): bring thanksgiving house: temple LORD

And people will come [to Jerusalem] bringing offerings to be completely burned [on the altar] and [other] offerings. They will bring to the temple grain offerings and incense and offerings to thank [me]. People will bring those offerings from the towns in Judah and the villages near Jerusalem and from the land [where the tribe] of Benjamin [lives] and from the western foothills and from the desert in the south.

27 and if not to hear: obey to(wards) me to/for to consecrate: consecate [obj] day [the] Sabbath and to/for lest to lift: bear burden and to come (in): come in/on/with gate Jerusalem in/on/with day [the] Sabbath and to kindle fire in/on/with gate her and to eat citadel: palace Jerusalem and not to quench

But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you [continue to] carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire.”’”