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16:21 Therefore I am surely going to teach them, this time I am going to teach them my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the LORD. 17:1 The sin of Judah is written with an iron pen; with a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts, and on the horns of their altars, 2 while their children remember their altars and their sacred poles, beside every green tree, and on the high hills, 3 on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your sin throughout all your territory. 4 By your own act you shall lose the heritage that I gave you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever. 5a Thus says the LORD: “Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the LORD. 6 They shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7 Blessed are those who trust in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. 8 They shall be like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots by the stream. It shall not fear when heat comes, and its leaves shall stay green; in the year of drought it is not anxious, and it does not cease to bear fruit.” [compare vv.6-7 with Ps 1:2-4] The addition of 17:1-5a (marked in bold) is significant for, among other things, negatively relating this context, with its allusion to perverse polytheistic worship (cf. 2:20-23), to writing the law on the hearts in the new covenant imagery of 31:33-34. Copyright © 2010 ScriptureWorkshop.com |