I, the Lord, search the heart, I try the reins, the seat of the innermost desires and feelings, even to give every man according to his ways, as his conduct deserves, and according to the fruit of his doings, in accordance with his deeds, as the expression of his heart's condition.
Verse Jeremiah 17:10. _I THE LORD SEARCH THE HEART_] The Lord is called by his apostles, Acts 1:24, Καρδιογνωστης, _the Knower of the heart_. To him alone can this epithet be applied; and it is from h...
In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin. Jeremiah 17:6 LIKE THE HEATH - Or, “like a destitute man” Psalms 102:17. The verbs “he shall see” (or...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Judah's sin (Jeremiah 17:1) _ 2. The curse and the blessing (Jeremiah 17:5) 3. The worship of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 17:12) 4. Concerning the Sabbath ...
JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
I THE LORD. Quoted in Romans 8:27; Revelation 2:23. HEART. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the mind, or intellect. REINS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for th...
Du. (so too Co.) suggests that these _vv_. link on closely to Jeremiah 17:14. In Jeremiah 17:9, according to him, the prophet is confessing his personal consciousness of sin, discovered by probing ben...
See introd. summary to section. This sub-section is made up of three isolated pieces, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; the metres also varying....
_search … reins_ See on Jeremiah 11:20. _even to give, etc_.] found also Jeremiah 32:19....
DISCOURSE: 1057 GOD’S RULE OF JUDGMENT Jeremiah 17:10. _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_. THE evil...
C. The Deceitful Human Heart Jeremiah 17:9-11 TRANSLATION (9) The heart is deceitful more than anything and incurable; who can know it? (10) I am the LORD who searches the heart, tries the mind in or...
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. Lest any should infer from , "who can how it?" that even the Lo...
1-4. The sin of Judah is indelible. Hence the severity of the punishment....
ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS. — The Hebrew word is in the singular, _his way,_ and the interpolated conjunction “and” is better omitted, so as to leave the last words as an explanation of what is meant by it...
אֲנִ֧י יְהוָ֛ה חֹקֵ֥ר לֵ֖ב בֹּחֵ֣ן כְּלָיֹ֑ות...
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
HUMAN AND DIVINE HELP CONTRASTED Jeremiah 17:1-14 The Jews were always seeking alliance either with Egypt or Babylon. What was true of them applies to us all; but we cannot depend upon human aid, wit...
Once again Jehovah declared His determination to deal with the people in judgment, because of the defiant definiteness of their sin. That sin was "written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a d...
Had we no other authority than what these verses furnish, here is enough to prove, that after all our knowledge of ourselves, we have not arrived to the perfect apprehension to what a state of sin and...
By these words he means that they, after having for a long time made many evasions, would yet be brought to judgment, willing or unwilling; for they could not possibly deprive God of his right, that h...
The great thing, amidst all that was going on, was to trust in Jehovah. He who, failing in this, made flesh his arm, should not see when good came. Meantime the fire of God's anger was kindled and sho...
I THE LORD SEARCH THE HEART,.... The inward parts of it, every room and corner in it; and know the thoughts of it; all its intents, purposes, designs, contrivances, and imaginations; all the secret mo...
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. Ver. 10. _I the Lord search the heart._] Be it never so full...
_The heart is deceitful above all things_ This passage, considered in connection with what precedes, may be understood in two points of view: 1st, As assigning a reason why we should not trust in man;...
5-11 He who puts confidence in man, shall be like the heath in a desert, a naked tree, a sorry shrub, the product of barren ground, useless and worthless. Those who trust to their own righteousness a...
Lest these hypocrites should pretend that their hearts were not departed from God, or should say, Who then can judge us if none knoweth the heart? saith God, Though no creature knoweth the heart of an...
Jeremiah 17:10 LORD H3068 search H2713 (H8802) heart H3820 test H974 (H8802) mind H3629 give H5414 ...
THE CURSINGS AND THE BLESSINGS ON INDIVIDUALS (JEREMIAH 17:5). But not all of Judah will come under YHWH's anger. Only those (the huge majority) who have turned from Him and forsaken Him and are under...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond:_ It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to erase an inscription that is wr...
CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, concluded. Message in the gates concerning the Sabbath. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The heart of man, out of communion with God, is wicked and dece...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron._ Yea, it is deeply written on the heart, as the diamond will write on polished stones, on tablets of brass, or on the brazen altars of B...
_I the Lord search the heart._ GOD, THE INSPECTOR OF THE HEART I. The description given of the human heart. 1. “The heart is deceitful above all things.” There is scarcely a truth, for instance, rev...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Jeremiah 17:1 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19. [_Keil_ se...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 17:1 are closely connected with the preceding chapter. We have just been pointed to the striking contrast between the conduct of the heathen and that of the backsliding men of Juda...
Chapter 17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond (Jeremiah 17:1): Interesting that they were using diamonds for pens in those days, isn't it? Diamonds set in...
1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17; 1 Samuel 16:7; 2 Chronicles 6:30;...