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## Jeremiah 17:6-8 in Context (Verses 3–11 KJV)
 
 [3 ](/kjv/jeremiah/17/3) O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance *and* all thy treasures to the spoil, *and* thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/jeremiah/17/4) And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, *which* shall burn for ever.*
 
 [5 ](/kjv/jeremiah/17/5) ¶ Thus saith the LORD; Cursed *be* the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/jeremiah/17/6) For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, *in* a salt land and not inhabited.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/jeremiah/17/7) Blessed *is* the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/jeremiah/17/8) For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and *that* spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.*
 
 [9 ](/kjv/jeremiah/17/9) ¶ The heart *is* deceitful above all *things*, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
 
 [10 ](/kjv/jeremiah/17/10) I the LORD search the heart, *I* try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, *and* according to the fruit of his doings.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/jeremiah/17/11) *As* the partridge sitteth *on eggs*, and hatcheth *them* not; *so* he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.*
 
[Jeremiah 16](/kjv/jeremiah/16) [Jeremiah 18](/kjv/jeremiah/18)

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