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Jeremiah 17:9

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

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

Jeremiah 17:9 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 17:9

Theological / Devotional

Deceitful. Heb. ‘aqob, from the root ‘aqab, “to seize at the heel,” “to beguile.” Here is the disclosure of the tragic reason that leads unregenerate man to choose to be a barren “heath” (v. 6) in the desert of sin rather than to be a fruitful “tree planted by the waters” (v. 8) of redemptive life. That reason is man’s own unregenerate, sinful nature (see Job 15:14; Ps. 51:5; 58:3; Eccl. 9:3; Rom. 7:14–20; Eph. 2:3).

Desperately wicked. Literally, “incurable,” that is, without any ability to heal its own evil (see Jer. 13:23; Jer. 30:12, 13; Matt. 9:12, 13).

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