11 translations · Hebrew
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:9 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
- KJV King James Version
- The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- ASV American Standard Version
- The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- The heart [is] deceitful above all things, || And it [is] incurable—who knows it?
- FBV Free Bible Version
- The mind is more deceptive than anything else—it's incurably sick! Who can possibly understand it?
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Crooked [is] the heart above all things, And it [is] incurable — who doth know it?
- DBY Darby Translation
- The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- The heart is deceitful above all things , and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| עָקֹ֥ב | ‘ā·qōḇ | [is] deceitful | H6121 עָקֹב insidious |
| הַלֵּ֛ב | hal·lêḇ | The heart | H3820 לֵב heart |
| מִכֹּ֖ל | mik·kōl | above all things | H3605 כֹּל all |
| וְאָנֻ֣שׁ | wə·’ā·nuš | and beyond cure | H605 אָנַשׁ be incurable |
| ה֑וּא | hū | — | H1931 הוּא he/she/it |
| מִ֖י | mî | Who | H4310 מִי who? |
| יֵדָעֶֽנּוּ׃ | yê·ḏā·‘en·nū | can understand it | H3045 יָדַע to know |
Related verses
- Mark 7:21–22
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
- Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
- Proverbs 28:26
One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
- Hebrews 3:12
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
- Genesis 6:5
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
- James 1:14–15
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
- Genesis 8:21
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
- Matthew 13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’
- Psalm 53:1–3
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good. God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God. Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.
8 For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green; and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
10 “I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
11 As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.
Read all of Jeremiah 17 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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