Jeremiah 17:5

Good News Translation

The Lord says, “I will condemn those who turn away from me and put their trust in human beings, in the strength of mortals.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 16:12

In the thirty-ninth year that Asa was king, he was crippled by a severe foot disease; but even then he did not turn to the Lord for help, but to doctors.

2 Chronicles 32:8

He has human power, but we have the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.” The people were encouraged by these words of their king.

Psalm 18:21

I have obeyed the law of the Lord; I have not turned away from my God.

Psalm 62:9

Human beings are all like a puff of breath; great and small alike are worthless. Put them on the scales, and they weigh nothing; they are lighter than a mere breath.

Isaiah 2:22

Put no more confidence in mortals. What are they worth?

Isaiah 20:5

Those who have put their trust in Ethiopia and have boasted about Egypt will be disillusioned, their hopes shattered.

Isaiah 36:6

You are expecting Egypt to help you, but that would be like using a reed as a walking stick—it would break and would jab your hand. That is what the king of Egypt is like when anyone relies on him.”

Isaiah 59:15

There is so little honesty that those who stop doing evil find themselves the victims of crime.” The Lord has seen this, and he is displeased that there is no justice.

Jeremiah 11:3

that I, the Lord God of Israel, have placed a curse on everyone who does not obey the terms of this covenant.

Ezekiel 6:9

where they will live in exile. There they will remember me and know that I have punished them and disgraced them, because their faithless hearts deserted me and they preferred idols to me. And they will be disgusted with themselves because of the evil and degrading things they have done.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke to Israel through Hosea, he said to Hosea, “Go and get married; your wife will be unfaithful, and your children will be just like her. In the same way my people have left me and become unfaithful.”