Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things; Yea, it is corrupt; who can know it?

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

8He 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.

10I, Jehovah, search the heart, And try the reins, To give to every man according to his ways, And according to the fruit of his doings.

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Cross References

Psalms 51:5Behold! I was born in iniquity, And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalms 64:7But God will shoot an arrow at them; Suddenly shall they be wounded.

Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil among all things which take place under the sun, that there is one event to all; therefore also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and afterward they go down to the dead.

Jeremiah 16:12And ye yourselves have done worse than your fathers; For, behold, ye walk every one after the perverseness of his evil heart, And do not hearken to me.

Matthew 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, blasphemies.

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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