Jeremiah 17:8
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but its foliage shall be luxuriant; and shall not be anxious in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
7Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose trust the LORD is.
9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceeding weak — who can know it?
Cross References
Job 8:16He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
Psalms 92:10(92-11) But my horn hast Thou exalted like the horn of the wild-ox; I am anointed with rich oil.
Jeremiah 14:1The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.
Ezekiel 47:12And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall the fruit thereof fail; it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters thereof issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for healing.'
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 →