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Jeremiah 17:9

American Standard Version

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

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Jeremiah 17:9 in other translations

The heart is deceitful above all things
and it is exceedingly corrupt.
Who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 17:9 in context

  1. 7Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is.
  2. 8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
  3. 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
  4. 10I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
  5. 11As the partridge that sitteth on eggs which she hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.