Jeremiah 17:1

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

2Like the symbols of their sons are their altars, and their Asherim are by the leafy trees, upon the high hills.

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Cross References

Leviticus 4:17And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil.

Job 19:23Oh that my words were now written! Oh 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 table 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 have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to offer unto Baal.

Hosea 8:11For Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, yea, altars have been unto him to sin.

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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