3 My mountain in the landand your wealth and all your treasuresI will give away as plunder,together with your high places,because of sin throughout your country.
4 Through your own fault you will losethe inheritance I gave you.I will enslave you to your enemiesin a land you do not know,for you have kindled my anger,and it will burn for ever.’
5 This is what the Lord says:‘Cursed is the one who trusts in man,who draws strength from mere fleshand whose heart turns away from the Lord.
6 That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;they will not see prosperity when it comes.They will dwell in the parched places of the desert,in a salt land where no one lives.
7 ‘But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,whose confidence is in him.
8 They will be like a tree planted by the waterthat sends out its roots by the stream.It does not fear when heat comes;its leaves are always green.It has no worries in a year of droughtand never fails to bear fruit.’
9 The heart is deceitful above all thingsand beyond cure.Who can understand it?