Jeremiah 17:1

The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:

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The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

In Context

2Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

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Cross References

Leviticus 4:17And put his finger in the blood, shaking drops of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil.

Job 19:23If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

Proverbs 3:3Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;

Jeremiah 11:13For the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah; and for every street in Jerusalem you have put up altars to the Baal for burning perfumes to the Baal.

Hosea 8:11Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

2 Corinthians 3:3For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

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 →

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