Verse For Today

Jeremiah 17:5-8

Thus says the Lord:

Cursed is the man who trusts in man

And makes flesh his strength,

Whose heart departs from the Lord.

For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,

And shall not see when good comes,

But shall inhabit the parched places

in the wilderness,

In a salt land which is not inhabited.

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,

And whose hope is the Lord.

For he shall be like a tree planted by

the waters,

Which spreads out its roots by the river,

And will not fear when heat comes;

But its leaf will be green,

And will not be anxious in the year

of drought,

Nor will cease from yielding fruit.