Jeremiah 17:1

Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and will lean his arm of flesh upon him, while his heart departs from the Lord.

LXX2012 (US English)

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;

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Cross References

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

Job 19:23For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a book forever,

Proverbs 3:3Let not mercy and truth forsake you; but bind them about your neck:

Jeremiah 11:13For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you⌃ set up altars to burn incense to Baal.

Hosea 8:11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars, his beloved altars are become sins to him.

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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