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Verse Jeremiah 17:9. _THE HEART_ IS _DECEITFUL_] עקב הלב _akob
halleb_, "the heart is supplanting - tortuous - full of windings -
insidious;" lying ever at the catch; striving to avail itself of every...
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In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults
which had led to Judah’s ruin.
Jeremiah 17:6
LIKE THE HEATH - Or, “like a destitute man” Psalms 102:17. The
verbs “he shall see” (or...
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CHAPTER 17
_ 1. Judah's sin (Jeremiah 17:1) _
2. The curse and the blessing (Jeremiah 17:5)
3. The worship of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 17:12)
4. Concerning the Sabbath ...
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JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR
SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming
sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
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DECEITFUL. crooked. Referring to the old nature of the natural man.
desperately wicked. sick unto death. it [is] sick unto death: i.e. it
[is] incurable.
WHO CAN KNOW IT? Figure of speech _Erotesis_,...
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Du. (so too Co.) suggests that these _vv_. link on closely to Jeremiah
17:14. In Jeremiah 17:9, according to him, the prophet is confessing
his personal consciousness of sin, discovered by probing ben...
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See introd. summary to section. This sub-section is made up of three
isolated pieces, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; the metres also varying....
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DISCOURSE: 1056
NECESSITY OF KNOWING OURSELVES
Jeremiah 17:9. _The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know it_?
A MORE important subject than that before us cannot o...
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THE HEART IS DECEITFUL, &C.— This passage, divided from the context,
and considered as an independent proposition, has been applied in a
sense different from the design of the author. This will eviden...
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C. The Deceitful Human Heart Jeremiah 17:9-11
TRANSLATION
(9) The heart is deceitful more than anything and incurable; who can
know it? (10) I am the LORD who searches the heart, tries the mind in
or...
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who
can know it?
THE HEART IS DECEITFUL - from a root [ `aaqab (H6117)],
'supplanting,' 'tripping up insidiously by the heel,' from...
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1-4. The sin of Judah is indelible. Hence the severity of the
punishment....
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THE HEART IS DECEITFUL... — The sequence of ideas seems as follows:
If the blessing and the curse are thus so plainly marked, how is it
that man chooses the curse and not the blessing, the portion of...
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עָקֹ֥ב הַ לֵּ֛ב מִ כֹּ֖ל וְ אָנֻ֣שׁ
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CHAPTER IX
THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS
Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?)
VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these
Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
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HUMAN AND DIVINE HELP CONTRASTED
Jeremiah 17:1-14
The Jews were always seeking alliance either with Egypt or Babylon.
What was true of them applies to us all; but we cannot depend upon
human aid, wit...
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Once again Jehovah declared His determination to deal with the people
in judgment, because of the defiant definiteness of their sin. That
sin was "written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a d...
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(i) The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately
wicked: who can know it?
(i) Because the wicked always have some excuse to defend their doings
he shows that their own lewd imagination...
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_Perverse. Septuagint, "deep." --- Unsearchable. Septuagint, "man, who
shall know him?" (Haydock) --- God alone can search the heart by his
own power. He enables saints to do it by the light of glory,...
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Had we no other authority than what these verses furnish, here is
enough to prove, that after all our knowledge of ourselves, we have
not arrived to the perfect apprehension to what a state of sin and...
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_THE DECEITFUL HEART_
‘Who can know it?’
Jeremiah 17:9
You will remember that this is said of ‘the heart,’ and that it
is made to apply itself to one of those terrible descriptions of
‘the human he...
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What is taught here depends on what is gone before; and therefore they
ought to be read together. Many lay hold on these words and mutilate
them without understanding the design of the Prophet. This i...
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The great thing, amidst all that was going on, was to trust in
Jehovah. He who, failing in this, made flesh his arm, should not see
when good came. Meantime the fire of God's anger was kindled and
sho...
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THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS,.... This is the source of the
idolatry and creature confidence of the Jews, sins which were the
cause of their ruin; and though what is here said is particular...
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The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked:
who can know it?
Ver. 9. _The heart of man is deceitful above all things._] The
pravity and perversity of man's heart, full of har...
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_The heart is deceitful above all things_ This passage, considered in
connection with what precedes, may be understood in two points of
view: 1st, As assigning a reason why we should not trust in man;...
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The Depth of the Nation's Corruption...
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The heart is deceitful above all things, full of perfidy and
treachery, AND DESPERATELY WICKED, profoundly corrupt; WHO CAN KNOW
IT? Who can understand and plumb the depths of its wickedness? This
alo...
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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 a...
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Jeremiah 17:9 heart H3820 deceitful H6121 wicked H605 (H8803) know
H3045 (H8799)
Jeremi
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THE CURSINGS AND THE BLESSINGS ON INDIVIDUALS (JEREMIAH 17:5).
But not all of Judah will come under YHWH's anger. Only those (the
huge majority) who have turned from Him and forsaken Him and are under...
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Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and
with the point of a diamond:_
It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to
erase an inscription that is wr...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, concluded. Message in the
gates concerning the Sabbath.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The heart of man, out of communion with God, is wicked and
dece...
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Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron._ Yea,
it is deeply written on the heart, as the diamond will write on
polished stones, on tablets of brass, or on the brazen altars of B...
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_The heart is deceitful above all things._
THE DECEITFULNESS OF THE HUMAN HEART
I. We are to consider what is implied in sinners knowing their own
hearts. They know that they have hearts, which are d...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 17:9 HEART. The human will and emotions
(see vv. Jeremiah 17:5). DESPERATELY SICK. The sinful heart cannot be
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.
Jeremiah 17:1 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in
the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19. [_Keil_
se...
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EXPOSITION
Jeremiah 17:1 are closely connected with the preceding chapter. We
have just been pointed to the striking contrast between the conduct of
the heathen and that of the backsliding men of Juda...
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Chapter 17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with
the point of a diamond (Jeremiah 17:1):
Interesting that they were using diamonds for pens in those days,
isn't it? Diamonds set in...
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Ecclesiastes 9:3; Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21; Hebrews 3:12; James 1:14;...
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The heart — There is nothing so false and deceitful as the heart of
man; deceitful in its apprehensions of things, in the hopes and
promises which it nourishes, in the assurances that it gives us;
uns...