Verse
Jeremiah 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who…
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
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The verses around Jeremiah 17:9.
7Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
8For 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.
9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10I 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.
11As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Verse explanation
The deceitful heart is one of the most quoted verses in the book. It doesn’t speak of a weak heart, but of a heart that deceives its own owner — the idea that no one can fully trust their own moral judgment without some correction from outside.
From the Jeremiah 17 study in Bible in Stories.
Jeremiah 17:9 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
Enganoso é o coração, mais do que todas as coisas, e perverso: quem o conhecerá?
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
O coração é mais enganoso que todas as coisas, e perverso; quem pode conhecê-lo?
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
La mente es más engañosa que cualquier otra cosa: ¡está incurablemente enferma! ¿Quién puede entenderla?
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