Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:9 in other translations
| BSB | The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? |
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| WEB | The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it? |
| ASV | The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? |
| YLT | Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable--who doth know it? |
| DARBY | The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it? |
| BBE | The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it? |
| Webster | The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? |
What does Jeremiah 17:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 17:5-11
He who puts confidence in man, shall be like the heath in a desert, a naked tree, a sorry shrub, the product of barren ground, useless and worthless. Those who trust to their own righteousness and strength, and think they can do without Christ, make flesh their arm, and their souls cannot prosper in graces or comforts. Those who make God their Hope, shall flourish like a tree always green, whose leaf does not…
Jeremiah 17:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 17:9
- Mark 7:21-22
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
- Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
- Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
- Proverbs 28:26
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
- Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
- Genesis 6:5
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- James 1:14-15
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
- Genesis 8:21
And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
- Matthew 13:15
For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
- Psalms 53:1-3
To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- Jeremiah 16:12
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
- Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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Context
- Jeremiah 17:8
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
- Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Jeremiah 17:10
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah 17:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Engañoso es el corazón más que todas las cosas, y perverso; ¿quién lo conocerá? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Le cœur est trompeur par-dessus tout, et incurable; qui le connaît? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Arglistig ist das Herz, mehr als alles, und verderbt ist es; wer mag es kennen? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Pravum est cor omnium, et inscrutabile: quis cognoscet illud? |