Bible verse
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
Jeremiah 17:13 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 17.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
10 I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
11 Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
12 A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.
15 Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”
16 But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.
17 Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.
KJV
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
ASV
O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be put to shame. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.
ERV
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed; they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
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