Jeremiah 17:5-11 - The One Who Trusts In Humankind Contrasted With The One Who Trusts In Yahweh

⁵ Thus, saith Yahweh Accursed is the man - Who trusteth in a son of earth, And hath made flesh his arm, - And whose heart from Yahweh, turneth aside: ⁶ Therefore shall he become as a shrub in the waste plain, Neither shall he perceive when good cometh, But shall inhabit Parched places in a wilderness, A land of salt that cannot he dwelt in. ⁷ Blessed is the man Who trusteth in Yahweh, To whom Yahweh is his ground of confidence; ⁸ For he shall become like a tree planted by waters, And, by a stream, shall he send out his roots, Neither shall he perceive when heat cometh, But, his leaf shall continue green: Even in a year of dearth, shall he not be anxious, Neither shall he cease from hearing fruit.

⁹ Deceitful is the heart above all things And, dangerously wayward, - Who can know it? ¹⁰ I - Yahweh, Searching the heart, Testing the affections; And giving to every man According to his way, According to the fruit of his doings. ¹¹ As a partridge gathereth eggs she did not lay, So is he that maketh riches but not with justice, - In the midst of his days, shall he leave them, And in his latter end, prove to have been base.