Jeremiah 17:8
For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the stream, and he shall not see when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and in the year of drought he shall not be careful, neither shall he cease to yield fruit.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is.
9The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?
Cross References
Job 8:16He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
Psalms 92:10But my horn shalt thou exalt like a buffalo's: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Jeremiah 14:1The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
Ezekiel 47:12And by the river, upon its bank, on the one side and on the other, shall grow all trees for food, whose leaf shall not fade, nor their fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, for its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 17:6-12
True and False Confidence; Deceitfulness of the Heart; Unlawful Gains. ( b. c. 605.) 5 Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord . 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord , and whose hope the Lord is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters,… Read the whole commentary →