Jeremiah 17:9

9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Jeremiah 17:9 in Other Translations

KJV
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
ESV
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
NLT
9 “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?
MSG
9 "The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out.
CSB
9 The heart is more deceitful than anything else and desperately sick-who can understand it?

Jeremiah 17:9 In-Context

7 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.
8 They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
10 “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”
11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.

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  • 1. S Ecclesiastes 9:3; Matthew 13:15; Mark 7:21-22
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