139:23; Rom. “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Proverbs 27:18. The heart is deceitful to a very great degree, it is superlatively so; "above all", above all creatures; the serpent and the fox are noted for their subtlety, and wicked men are compared to them for it; but these comparisons fall short of expressing the wicked subtlety and deceit in men's hearts; yea, it is more deceitful to a man than the devil, the great deceiver himself; because it is nearer to a man, and can come at him, and work upon him, when Satan cannot: or "about", or "concerning all things"; it is so in everything in which it is concerned, natural, civil, or religious, and especially the latter. An Evil Heart (Jeremiah 18:12) “So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one obey the dictates of his own evil heart”. Berean Study Bible The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. When the Bible wants to address who we are as human beings, it speaks of the heart. Jeremiah 17:2 is plainly meant to be a fuller and clearer disclosure of the sins written on the tables of Judah's heart, finding therein its point of connection with Jeremiah 17:1.The verse has no verbum finit., and besides it is a question whether "their children" is subject or object to "remember." Nothing in this world can cure the wickedness of man’s heart. Equally fleeting is the existence of those who forsake God. 8:27. Ways - Rather, way, his course of life. A board covered with sand is used in the East to this day in schools for giving lessons in writing: but writing inscribed on such materials is intended to be immediately obliterated. (2) that God will give them strength to bear it. 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? In this sense, he is desperately wicked (though not all unbelievers are as bad as they can be in the manifestation of that wickedness). The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. This taunt shows that this prophecy was written before any very signal fulfillment of Jeremiah‘s words had taken place, and prior therefore to the capture of Jerusalem at the close of Jehoiakim‘s life. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” (Jeremiah 17:9‭-‬10 NLT) But Jesus didn’t trust them, because he knew… King James Bible It is “the fruit,” the final result “of his doings, i. e., his real character as formed by the acts and habits of his life. English Standard Version Proverbs 27:19. So Yahweh guides His people Psalm 23:1-2, and the prophet does so “after Him,” following obediently His instructions. The train of thought is apparently this: If the man is so blessed Jeremiah 17:7-8 who trusts in Yahweh, what is the reason why men so generally “make flesh their arm”? In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah‘s ruin. The Septuagint version renders it "deep"; it is an abyss, a bottomless one; there is no fathoming of it; the depths of sin are in it; see Psalm 64:6 and, seeing it is so deceitful, it should not be trusted in; a man should neither trust in his own heart, nor in another's, Proverbs 28:26, "and desperately wicked": everything in it is wicked; the thoughts of it are evil; the imaginations of the thoughts are so; even every imagination, and that only, and always, Genesis 6:5 the affections are inordinate; the mind and conscience are defiled; the understanding darkened, so dark as to call evil good, and good evil; and the will obstinate and perverse: all manner of sin and wickedness is in it; it is the cage of every unclean bird, and the hold of every foul spirit; all sin is forged and framed in it; and all manner of evil comes out of it, Revelation 18:1 yea, it is wickedness itself, Psalm 5:9, it is so even to desperation; it is "incurably wicked", as it may be rendered; it is so without the grace of God, and blood of Christ: who can know it? What Jeremiah asserts is that he spake as in God‘s presence. But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. Shall be written in the earth - i. e., their names shall quickly disappear, unlike those graven in the rock forever Job 19:24. 9 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, c how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are d in the hand of God. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? We are really in the evil days. 9 The heart is deceitful above all things,    and desperately sick;    who can understand it?10 (A)“I the Lord search the heart    (B)and test the mind,[a](C)to give every man according to his ways,    according to the fruit of his deeds.”. Why? Jeremiah 17:10. Now, let me ask you a question, is there a verse after the cross that says that our heart is desperately wicked? Read verse in English Standard Version Why and how does anyone become truly wicked? “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. I never seem to grasp it though. “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of Or, “Thou throne … thou place … thou hope … Yahweh! My old MS. Bible translates thus: - Schrewid is the herte of a man: and unserchable: who schal knowen it? I get to the root of things. 10 “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, [() to give every man according to his waysaccording to … “Now” means “I pray,” and is ironical. I get to the heart of the human. The Heart of Man is desperately wicked. And desperately wicked - הוא ואנש veanush hu, and is wretched, or feeble; distressed beyond all things, in consequence of the wickedness that is in it. Desperately wicked - Rather, mortally sick. SPEAKING at the funeral for murdered Republic Bank workers, Neisha Cyleane Sankar, 29 Reverend Angela Gidarree said that Jeremiah (a character … And the answer is: Because man‘s heart is incapable of seeing things in a straightforward manner, but is full of shrewd guile, and ever seeking to overreach others. We've had the Holocaust, Slavery, World War One and Two, the era of Witch Killings (public burning) and … Biblically speaking, the unbeliever is completely and totally affected by sin in every area of his being: heart, soul, mind, body, emotions, etc. And before you protest saying that you could never do the evil things that OTHER PEOPLE do. .or something like that By FelC The things I come up with on a plane back to school after a lovely Christmas holiday. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. The answer to the question, “who can know it?” To himself a man‘s heart is an inscrutable mystery: God alone can fathom it. . PHOTO BY VASHTI SINGH. They were no words of his own, but had the authority of Him before whom he stood. Jer 17:9-10 The LORD test our hearts and treats us according … Rather, “As the partridge hath gathered eggs which it laid not, so … ” The general sense is: the covetous man is as sure to reap finally disappointment only as is the partridge which piles up eggs not of her own laying, and is unable to hatch them. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. This is the source of the idolatry and creature confidence of the Jews, sins which were the cause of their ruin; and though what is here said is particularly applicable to their hearts, yet is in general true of the heart of every man; which is "deceitful", and deceiving; and puts a cheat upon the man himself whose it is: it deceives him with respect to sin; it proposes it to him under the notion of pleasure; it promises him a great deal in it, but does not yield a real pleasure to him; it is all fancy and imagination; a mere illusion and a dream; and what it gives is very short lived; it is but for a season, and ends in bitterness and death: or it proposes it under the notion of profit; it promises him riches, by such and such sinful ways it suggests; but, when he has got them, he is the loser by them; these deceitful riches choke the word, cause him to err from the faith, pierce him through with many sorrows, and endanger the loss of his soul: it promises honour and preferment in the world, but promotes him to shame; it promises him liberty, but brings him into bondage; it promises him impunity, peace, and security, when sudden destruction comes: it deceives him in point of knowledge; it persuades him that he is a very knowing person, when he is blind and ignorant, and knows nothing as he ought to know; and only deceives himself; for there is no true knowledge but of God in Christ, and of a crucified Christ, and salvation by him; see 1 Corinthians 3:18 it deceives in the business of religion; it makes a man believe that he is a very holy and righteous man, and in a fair way for heaven, when he is far from that, and the character it gives him; in order to this, it suggests to him that concupiscence or lust, or the inward workings of the mind, are not sin; and it is only on this principle that it can be accounted for, that Saul, before conversion, or any other man, should be led into such a mistake, as to conclude that, touching the righteousness of the law, he was blameless: it represents other sins as mere peccadillos, as little sins, and not to be regarded; and even puts the name of virtue on vices; profuseness and prodigality it calls liberality, and doing public good; and covetousness has the name of frugality and good economy: it directs men to compare themselves and their outward conduct with others, that are very profane and dissolute; and from thence to form a good character of themselves, as better than others; and as it buoys up with the purity of human nature, so with the power of man's freewill to do that which is good, and particularly to repent at pleasure; and it puts the profane sinner upon trusting to the absolute mercy of God, and hides from him his justice and holiness; and it puts others upon depending upon the outward acts of religion, or upon speculative notions, to the neglect of real godliness; see James 1:22. 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