Jeremiah 17:9
The Scripture
(9) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Chapter overview (whole chapter)
Jeremiah delivers a solemn warning that the nations will bring great disaster upon Judah and that the house of David will be destroyed as the house of Jacob. He says that the people's sins have led to their ruin and that only a remnant will survive. The chapter ends with a call to repentance and a promise that God will restore the land.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jeremiah 16:12Genesis 6:5Genesis 8:21Job 15:14Job 15:15Job 15:16Psalms 51:5Psalms 53:1Psalms 53:2Psalms 53:3Proverbs 28:26Ecclesiastes 9:3
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