Jeremiah 17:10

I am the Lord who search the heart and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

In Context

9The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

11As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 16:7And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

1 Chronicles 29:17I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings.

Job 34:11For he will render to a man his work, and according to the ways of every one he will reward them.

Psalms 7:10The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought: and thou shalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God.

Psalms 62:12God hath spoken once, these two things have I heard, that power belongeth to God,

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 →

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