Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitfull and wicked aboue all things, who can knowe it?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 8:21And the Lord smellled a sauour of rest, and the Lord said in his heart, I will hencefoorth curse the ground no more for mans cause: for the imagination of mans heart is euill, euen from his youth: neither will I smite any more all things liuing, as I haue done.
Psalms 51:5Beholde, I was borne in iniquitie, and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me.
Psalms 64:7But God will shoote an arrowe at them suddenly: their strokes shalbe at once.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is euill among all that is done vnder the sunne, that there is one condition to all, and also the heart of the sonnes of men is full of euill, and madnes is in their heartes whiles they liue, and after that, they goe to the dead.
Jeremiah 16:12(And ye haue done worse then your fathers: for beholde, you walke euery one after the stubbernesse of his wicked heart, and will not heare me)
Matthew 15:19For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.
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 →