Jeremiah 17:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? ”

• Jeremiah 17:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 sha...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (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 imaginati...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 deat...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  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 Erote...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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....

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  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 ca...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The heart is deceitful above all things , and desperately wicked: who can know it? The heart is deceitful - עקב הלב akob halleb, "the heart is supplanting - tortuous - full of windings - insidious...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? The heart is deceitful - from a root х `aaqab ( H6117 )], 'supplanting,' 'tripping up insidiously by the...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-4. The sin of Judah is indelible. Hence the severity of the punishment.

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1-22 ; Jeremiah 15:1-21 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up i...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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 ai...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 an...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  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 hum...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 particu...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 h...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  True and False Confidence; Deceitfulness of the Heart; Unlawful Gains. B. C.  605.       5 Thus sai...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The words translated deceitful, and desperately wicked, are very variously translated, fraudulent, perverse, supplanting. He speaks to the Jews, that they might not lean too much to their own cou...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Cursings And The Blessings On Individuals ( Jeremiah 17:5-11 ). 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...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. —1. Chronology of the Chapter. Jeremiah 17:1-18 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19 ....

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 i...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 o...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 a...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Jeremiah 17:1-24 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...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Depth of the Nation's Corruption

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ecclesiastes 9:3 ; Genesis 6:5 ; Genesis 8:21 ; Hebrews 3:12 ; James 1:14 ; James 1:15 ; Jeremiah 16:12 ; Job 15:14-16 ; Mark 7:21 ; Mark 7:22 ; Matthew 15:19 ; Proverbs 28:26 ; Psalms 5...

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• Jeremiah 17:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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;...

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