5 This is what the LORD says: |
6 He will be like a bush in the wastelands;
he will not see prosperity when it comes.
He will dwell in the parched places of the desert,
in a salt land where no one lives. |
7 "But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD ,
whose confidence is in him. |
8 He will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit." |
9 The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it? |
10 "I the LORD search the heart
and examine the mind,
to reward a man according to his conduct,
according to what his deeds deserve." |
