The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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Gill's Exposition
The heart is deceitful above all things,.... 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…
In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin. Jer 17:6 Like the heath - Or, “like a destitute man” Psa 102:17. The verbs “he shall see” (or fear) and…
It is excellent doctrine that is preached in these verses, and of general concern and use to us all, and it does not appear to have any particular reference to the present state of Judah and…
See introd. summary to section. This sub-section is made up of three isolated pieces, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; the metres also varying.
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