Jeremiah 17:8
He shall be like a tree planted by the water-side, That spreadeth out her roots by the stream, That feeleth not when the heat cometh, But whose leaf is green; That careth not in the year of drought, Nor ceaseth from yielding fruit.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7Blessed is the man who trusteth in Jehovah; Who in Jehovah placeth his hope!
9The heart is deceitful above all things; Yea, it is corrupt; who can know it?
Cross References
Job 8:16He is in full green before the sun, And his branches shoot forth over his garden;
Psalms 92:10But my horn thou exaltest like the buffalo's; I am anointed with fresh oil.
Jeremiah 14:1The word of Jehovah, which came to Jeremiah concerning a drought.
Ezekiel 47:12And by the river, upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for food, whose leaf shall not fade, and whose fruit shall not fail; every month shall they bring forth new fruit; because their waters issue forth from the sanctuary. And their fruit shall be for food, and their leaves for medicine.
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 →