exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? 017:010 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. 017:011 As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool. 017:012 A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. 017:013 Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters. 017:014 Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise. 017:015 Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now. 017:016 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face. 017:017 Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil. 017:018 Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. 017:019 Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; 017:020 and tell them, Hear you the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: 017:021 Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; 017:022 neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. 017:023 But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction. 017:024 It shall happen, if you diligently listen to me, says Yahweh, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein; 017:025 then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever. 017:026 They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from