Jeremiah 17:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ Thus said יהוה, “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart turns away from יהוה.

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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

And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his disease was severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek יהוה, but the physicians.

2 Chronicles 32:8

“With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is יהוה  our Elohim, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people leaned on the words of Ḥ

Psalm 18:21

For I have guarded the ways of יהוה, And have not acted wrongly against my Elohim.

Psalm 62:9

Sons of Aḏ

Isaiah 2:22

Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for in what is he to be reckoned upon?

Isaiah 20:5

“And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Kush, their expectation, and of Mitsrayim, their boast.

Isaiah 36:6

“Look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Mitsrayim, on which if a man leans, it shall go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh the sovereign of Mitsrayim to all who trust in him.

Isaiah 59:15

And the truth is lacking, and whoever turns away from evil makes himself a prey. And יהוה  saw, and it displeased Him that there was no right-ruling.

Jeremiah 11:3

“And you shall say to them, ‘Thus said יהוה  Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 6:9

“And those of you who escape shall remember Me among the gentiles where they have been taken captive, because I have been broken by their adulterous heart which has turned away from Me, and by their eyes which whored after their idols. And they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have done in all their abominations.

Hosea 1:2

The beginning of the word of יהוה  with Hoshĕ