Jeremiah 17:9

Authorized King James Version

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

— Jeremiah 17:9, Authorized King James Version

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Jeremiah 17 — Context

6

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.

7

Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

8

For 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.

9

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

10

I 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.

11

[As] 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.

12

¶ A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the place of our sanctuary.