1The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:
2Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.
3I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.
4And your hand will have to let go your heritage which I gave you; and I will make you a servant to your haters in a land which is strange to you: for you have put my wrath on fire with a flame which will go on burning for ever.
5This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
6For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.
7A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
