The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Jeremiah 17:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? Common English Bible The most cunning heart— it’s beyond help. Who can figure it out? Catholic Public Domain Version The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The heart is perverse above all things and unsearchable. Who can know it? |
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
The LORD smelled the sweet savor. The LORD 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; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
He wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriyah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire you from him, that he may be struck, and die.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
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.
Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.*
and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to me:
But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
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 should turn again; and I would heal them.'
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
When Yeshua heard it, he said to them, *Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.*
Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
for sin, finding occasion through the mitzvah, deceived me, and through it killed me.
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;