Jeremiah 17:5

New King James Version

Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the Lord.

Cross References

Isaiah 2:22

Sever yourselves from such a man, Whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?

2 Chronicles 32:8

With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Isaiah 36:6

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

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are a vapor, Men of high degree are a lie; If they are weighed on the scales, They are altogether lighter than vapor.

Psalm 18:21

For I have kept the ways of the Lord, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

Ezekiel 6:9

Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry And children of harlotry, For the land has committed great harlotry By departing from the Lord.”

Isaiah 59:15

So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him That there was no justice.

2 Chronicles 16:12

And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady was severe; yet in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.

Isaiah 20:5

Then they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation and Egypt their glory.

Jeremiah 11:3

and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant