Jeremiah 17:1

The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond, it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of their altars.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

2When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon high mountains,

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Cross References

Leviticus 4:17And shall dip his finger in it and sprinkle it seven times before the veil.

Job 19:23Who will grant me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?

Proverbs 3:3Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart:

Jeremiah 11:13For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda: and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem thou hast set up altars of confusion, altars to offer sacrifice to Baalim.

Hosea 8:11Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.

2 Corinthians 3:3Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

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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