Jeremiah 17:5

Faith Judgment

³ O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.

⁴ And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

⁶ He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

⁷ But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
KJV: Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
WEB: The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
ASV: Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
DARBY: Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that confideth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
BLB: Thus says YHWH: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his arm and turns away his heart from YHWH.

ÅB: Så sier Herren: Forbannet er den mann som setter sin lit til mennesker og holder kjød for sin arm, og hvis hjerte viker fra Herren.
OTB: Dette er hva Herren erklærer: “Forbannet er den som setter sin lit til mennesket, som stoler på kjøtt og hvis hjerte vender seg bort fra Herren.
B1930: Så sier Herren: Forbannet er den mann som setter sin lit til mennesker og holder kjød for sin arm, og hvis hjerte viker fra Herren.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 118:8–9
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
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Psalms 146:3–4
Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
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Isaiah 2:22
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
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2 Chronicles 32:8
With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
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Isaiah 31:1–9
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
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Isaiah 30:1–7
“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
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Isaiah 36:6
Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
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Psalms 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
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