Jeremiah 17:13-15

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¹³Lord, you are the hope of Israel.
You are like a spring of living water.
Those who stop following the Lord
will have a very short life.^[a]

Jeremiah’s Third Complaint

¹⁴Lord, if you heal me, I surely will be healed.
    Save me, and I surely will be saved.
    Lord, I praise you!
¹⁵The people of Judah continue to ask me questions.
    They say, “Jeremiah, what about the message from the Lord?
    Let’s see that message come true.”

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 17:13 will have a very short life Literally, “he will be written in the dirt.” This might mean that a person’s name was written on a list of people who would soon die, or that a person’s life will soon be gone—like a name written in the sand.