Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond. It is engraved upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2while their sons remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
Cross References
Leviticus 4:17And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before LORD, before the veil.
Job 19:23O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book,
Proverbs 3:3Let not kindness and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart,
Jeremiah 11:13For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah, and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem ye have set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.
Hosea 8:11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been to him for sinning.
2 Corinthians 3:3being seen that ye are a letter of Christ, administered by us, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, not in stony tablets, but in fleshly tablets, in hearts.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 17:1
In this chapter, I. God convicts the Jews of the sin of idolatry by the notorious evidence of the fact, and condemns them to captivity for it, ver. 1-4 . II. He shows them the folly of all their carnal confidences, which should stand them in no stead when God's time came to contend with them, and that this was one of the sins upon which his controversy with them was grounded, ver. 5-11 . III. The prophet makes his appeal and address to God upon occasion of the malice of his enemies against him, committing himself… Read the whole commentary →