Jeremiah 17:8
For he shall become like a tree planted by waters, And, by a stream, shall he send out his roots, Neither shall he perceive when heat cometh, But, his leaf shall continue green: Even in a year of dearth, shall he not be anxious, Neither shall he cease from bearing fruit.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
7Blessed is the man Who trusteth in Yahweh, To whom Yahweh is his ground of confidence;
9Deceitful is the heart above all things And, dangerously wayward,—Who can know it?
Cross References
Job 8:16Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:
Psalms 92:10But thou wilt exalt, as [those of] the buffalo, my horn, I have been anointed, with fresh oil.
Jeremiah 14:1So much of the word of Yahweh as came unto Jeremiah, concerning the matter of the drought:—
Ezekiel 47:12And, by the river, shall grow up on the bank thereof on this side and on that side every tree for food the leaf whereof, shall not fade, neither shall fail the fruit thereof, by its months, shall it break forth, for, as for the waters thereof, out of the sanctuary, are they coming forth,—and the fruit thereof shall be, for food, and, the leaf thereof, 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 →