3 So I will hand over my holy mountain—along with all your wealth and treasuresand your pagan shrines—as plunder to your enemies,for sin runs rampant in your land.
4 The wonderful possession I have reserved for youwill slip from your hands.I will tell your enemies to take youas captives to a foreign land.For my anger blazes like a firethat will burn forever.”
5 This is what the lord says:“Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans,who rely on human strengthand turn their hearts away from the lord.
6 They are like stunted shrubs in the desert,with no hope for the future.They will live in the barren wilderness,in an uninhabited salty land.
7 “But blessed are those who trust in the lordand have made the lord their hope and confidence.
8 They are like trees planted along a riverbank,with roots that reach deep into the water.Such trees are not bothered by the heator worried by long months of drought.Their leaves stay green,and they never stop producing fruit.
9 “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,and desperately wicked.Who really knows how bad it is?