Jeremiah Chapter 17 verse 9 Holy Bible
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
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The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
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Crooked `is' the heart above all things, And it `is' incurable -- who doth know it?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 9, 10. - The crocked devices of the human heart, which is characterized as deceitful above all things (or, as Delitzsch, ' Biblical Psychology,' English translation, p. 340, "proud;" literally, uneven or rugged; comp. Isaiah 40:4; Habakkuk 2:4, Hebrew; Psalm 131:2, Hebrew), and desperately wicked, or rather, desperately sick (see Jeremiah 15:18, where it is explained by the words, "which refuseth to be healed"). The Septuagint reads this verse differently, "The heart is deep above all things, and it is a man."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) 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 the "heath in the desert" rather than that of the "tree planted by the waters"? And the answer is found in the inscrutable self-deceit of his nature blinding his perceptions of good and evil.Desperately wicked.--Rather, incurably diseased, as in Jeremiah 15:18; Jeremiah 30:12; Jeremiah 30:15; Isaiah 17:11, and elsewhere. Wickedness is, of course, implied, but it is regarded rather as a moral taint following on the deliberate choice, than as the choice itself.
