Jeremiah 17:5-10

5Thus says Adonai: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, and depends on flesh as his arm, and whose heart turns from Adonai.

6For he will be like a bush in the desert. He cannot see goodness when it comes, but will dwell in parched places in the wilderness— a salt land where no one lives.

7Blessed is the one who trusts in Adonai, whose confidence is in Adonai.

8For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, spreading out its roots by a stream. It has no fear when heat comes, but its leaves will be green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor depart from yielding fruit.

9“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable—who can know it?

10I Adonai search the heart, I try the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.