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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 17:9 - Strong Concordance

Verse         Translation Text
Jer 17:9 Strong Concordance The heart [03820] is deceitful [06121] above all things, and desperately wicked [0605]: who can know [03045] it?
  King James The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
deceitful--from a root, "supplanting," "tripping up insidiously by the heel," from which Jacob (Hos 12:3) took his name. In speaking of the Jews' deceit of heart, he appropriately uses a term alluding to their forefather, whose deceit, but not whose faith, they followed. His "supplanting" was in order to obtain Jehovah's blessing. They plant Jehovah for "trust in man" (Jer 17:5), and then think to deceive God, as if it could escape His notice, that it is in man, not in Him, they trust.

desperately wicked--"incurable" [HORSLEY], (Mic 1:9). Trust in one's own heart is as foolish as in our fellow man (Pro 28:26).
 
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26 He that trusteth [0982] in his own heart [03820] is a fool [03684]: but whoso walketh [01980] wisely [02451], he shall be delivered [04422].
9 For her wound [04347] is incurable [0605]; for it is come [0935] unto Judah [03063]; he is come [05060] unto the gate [08179] of my people [05971], even to Jerusalem [03389].
5 Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; Cursed [0779] be the man [01397] that trusteth [0982] in man [0120], and maketh [07760] flesh [01320] his arm [02220], and whose heart [03820] departeth [05493] from the LORD [03068].
3 He took his brother [0251] by the heel [06117] in the womb [0990], and by his strength [0202] he had power [08280] with God [0430]: