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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 17:9 - 17:9
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deceitful - from a root, “supplanting,” “tripping up insidiously by the heel,” from which Jacob (Hos 12:3) took his name. In speaking of the Jews’ deceit of heart, he appropriately uses a term alluding to their forefather, whose deceit, but not whose faith, they followed. His “supplanting” was in order to obtain Jehovah’s blessing. They plant Jehovah for “trust in man” (Jer 17:5), and then think to deceive God, as if it could escape His notice, that it is in man, not in Him, they trust.
desperately wicked - “incurable” [Horsley], (Mic 1:9). Trust in one’s own heart is as foolish as in our fellow man (Pro 28:26).