Jeremiah 17:8
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Cross References
Job 8:16He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.
Psalms 92:10But my horn shall you exalt like the horn of an unicorn (p. ox): I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Jeremiah 14:1The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
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, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof 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 →