Jeremiah 17:8
He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Cross References
Job 8:16He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.
Psalms 92:10But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.
Jeremiah 14:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
Ezekiel 47:12Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves 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 →