Jeremiah 17:5

The Passion Translation

Yahweh said to me: “Even a strong person is cursed when his confidence rests in his own strength. To place your confidence in the strength of man means that you are turning your heart away from me.

Cross References

Isaiah 2:22

So once and for all, stop trusting in man, who is but one breath from death—frail and puny man!

Isaiah 36:6

I know—you are relying on Egypt, that broken staff full of splinters. If anyone leans on it, it will pierce his hand. Pharaoh himself, king of Egypt, is like that splintered staff to those who put their trust in him! But you tell me that you are trusting in Yahweh, your God. For Hezekiah went around destroying every sacred altar from the land. Didn’t he insist that Judah and Jerusalem had to worship only at this altar in your temple?

Psalm 62:9

Before God all the people of the earth, high or low, are like smoke that disappears, like a vapor that quickly vanishes away. Compared to God they’re nothing but vanity, nothing at all!

Psalm 18:21

I will follow his commands and I’ll not sin by ceasing to follow him, no matter what.

Ezekiel 6:9

Those who escape will remember me among the nations where they are exiles. They will remember how my heart was crushed by their promiscuous ways when they turned their hearts away from me and by their wandering eyes that lusted after idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil things they did and all their detestable practices.

Isaiah 59:15

Yes, truth has disappeared, and those who turn from evil become the next victims. Yahweh saw this and was greatly displeased that there was no justice.

Isaiah 20:5

And those who put their hope in ‘glorious Cush’ and ‘mighty Egypt,’ will be shattered and totally ashamed.”

Jeremiah 11:3

Preach to them, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to you: A curse will rest on whoever disobeys the terms of this covenant