Jeremiah

²Even their children remember their altarsand their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills. ³My 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. ⁴You, 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.” ⁵the Lord says:“Cursed is the man who trusts in man,relies on strength of flesh,and whose heart departs from the Lord. ⁶For 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. ⁷“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,and whose confidence is in the Lord. ⁸For he will be as a tree planted by the waters,who spreads out its roots by the river,and will not fear when heat comes,but its leaf will be green;and will not be concerned in the year of drought.It won’t cease from yielding fruit.