Jeremiah 17:8
For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
7“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose confidence is in the LORD.
9The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
Cross References
Job 8:16He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
Psalms 92:10But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.
Jeremiah 14:1This is the LORD’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
Ezekiel 47:12By the river banks, on both sides, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf 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 →