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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
EASY. A person's own mind deceives him, more than anything else does. Nobody can change it to be better. Nobody completely understands it. EHV. The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is beyond cure.
It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit. 9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.
New International Version. The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? American Standard Version.
Jeremiah 17:9–11 — American Standard Version (ASV) 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? 10 I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah 17:9 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.
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.
