Jeremiah 17:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁵ This is what the Lord says: Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind. He makes human flesh his strength, and his heart turns from the  Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Thus says the Lord: Cursed [with great evil] is the strong man who trusts in and relies on frail man, making weak [human] flesh his arm, and whose mind and heart turn aside from the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.

Common English Bible

⁵ The LORD proclaims: Cursed are those who trust in mere humans, who depend on human strength and turn their hearts from the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is a man who trusts in man, and who establishes what is flesh as his right arm, and whose heart withdraws from the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:5 Cross References

2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a disease in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his disease he didn’t seek the Lord but only the physicians.

2 Chronicles 32:8

He has only human strength,  but we have the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.’  So the people relied on the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.

Isaiah 2:22

Put no more trust in a mere human, who has only the breath in his nostrils. What is he really worth?

Isaiah 20:5

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

Isaiah 36:6

Look, you are relying on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff  that will pierce the hand of anyone who grabs it and leans on it. This is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who rely on him.

Isaiah 59:15

Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil is plundered. The Lord saw that there was no justice, and he was offended.

Jeremiah 11:3

Tell them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let a curse be on the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,

Ezekiel 6:9

Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive,  how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols.  They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did,  their detestable actions of every kind.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity, and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the  Lord.