Jeremiah 17:9

Deceitful is the heart above all things, and sick: who can know it?

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

In Context

8And he shall be like a tree that is planted by the waters, and by a stream spreadeth out its roots, which feeleth not when heat cometh, but its leaf remaineth green; and in a year of drought it is undisturbed by care, and ceaseth not from yielding fruit.

10I the Lord search the heart, probe the reins: yea, to give unto every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

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Cross References

Genesis 8:21And the Lord smelled the sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for the sake of man; although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Psalms 51:5(51:7) Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalms 64:7(64:8) But God shooteth at them suddenly [his] arrow;—[thence] are come their wounds.

Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one occurrence for all, and that also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and that madness is in their heart while they live, and after this they go to the dead.

Jeremiah 16:12And ye act worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so as not to hearken unto me;

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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