Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond, Graven on the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2As their sons remember their altars and their shrines, By the green tree, by the high hills.
Cross References
Leviticus 4:17and the priest hath dipped his finger in the blood, and hath sprinkled seven times before Jehovah at the front of the vail,
Job 19:23Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?
Proverbs 3:3Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,
Jeremiah 11:13For — the number of thy cities have been thy gods, O Judah, And — the number of the streets of Jerusalem Ye have placed altars to a shameful thing, Altars to make perfume to Baal.
Hosea 8:11Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.
2 Corinthians 3:3manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 17:1
In this chapter, I. God convicts the Jews of the sin of idolatry by the notorious evidence of the fact, and condemns them to captivity for it, ver. 1-4 . II. He shows them the folly of all their carnal confidences, which should stand them in no stead when God's time came to contend with them, and that this was one of the sins upon which his controversy with them was grounded, ver. 5-11 . III. The prophet makes his appeal and address to God upon occasion of the malice of his enemies against him, committing himself… Read the whole commentary →