Jeremiah 17:9 - The Scriptures 1998

⁹ “The heart is crooked above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it [perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind]? [Matt. 13:15-17; Mark 7:21-23; Eph. 4:20-24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Common English Bible

⁹ The most cunning heart— it’s beyond help. Who can figure it out?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9 Cross References

Genesis 6:5

And יהוה  saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21

And יהוה  smelled a soothing fragrance, and יהוה  said in His heart, “Never again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again smite all living creatures, as I have done,

2 Samuel 11:15

And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriyah in the front of the heaviest battle, and you shall turn away from him, and he shall be smitten and shall die.”

Psalm 51:5

See, I was brought forth in crookedness, And in sin my mother conceived me.

Psalm 64:7

But Elohim does shoot at them with an arrow; Their wounds shall be sudden.

Proverbs 28:26

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But he who walks wisely is delivered.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one event to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and then – to the dead!

Isaiah 1:5

Why should you be beaten any more? You continue in apostasy! All the head is sick, and all the heart faints.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot, to the head, there is no soundness in it – wounds and bruises and open sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment.

Isaiah 6:10

“Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and shall turn and be healed.”

Jeremiah 16:12

‘And you have done more evil than your fathers, for look, each one walks according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

Jeremiah 7:24

“But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Matthew 13:15

for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back, and I heal them.’

Matthew 15:19

“For out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false witnessings, slanders.

Mark 2:17

And hearing this, יהושע  said to them, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.”

Romans 1:21

because, although they knew Elohim, they did not esteem Him as Elohim, nor gave thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their undiscerning heart was darkened.

Romans 7:11

For sin, having taken the occasion through the command, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Ephesians 4:22

that you put off – with regard to your former way of life – the old man, being corrupted according to the desires of the deceit,

Hebrews 3:12

Look out, brothers, lest there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in falling away from the living Elohim,