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Jeremiah 17:10
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I, the Lord, examine the mind,I test the heartto give to each according to his way,according to what his actions deserve.
I, the LORD, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
"I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
"I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, To give to each person according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.
But I, the Lord , look into a person's heart and test the mind. So I can decide what each one deserves; I can give each one the right payment for what he does."
"I, the LORD, search and examine the mind, I test the heart, To give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.
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.
I the Lord search the heart, and try ye reines, euen to giue euery man according to his wayes, and according to the fruite of his workes.
I, Yahweh, search the heart;I test the inmost being,Even to give to each man according to his ways,According to the fruit of his deeds.
I, the LORD, search the heart; I test the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
But I know your deeds and your thoughts, and I will make sure you get what you deserve.
I, Adonai , search the heart; I test inner motivations; in order to give to everyone what his actions and conduct deserve."
I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
But I am the Lord , and I can look into a person's heart. I can test a person's mind and decide what each one should have. I can give each person the right payment for what they do.
I the LORD search the heart and try the reins, and give every man according to his ways and according to the fruits of his doings.
I, the Lord , search the minds and test the hearts of people. I treat each of them according to the way they live, according to what they do."
I, Yahweh, examine the mind, I test the heart, and give to each one according to his way, according to the fruit of his deeds.
I, Jehovah, search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Euen I the LORDE ripe out the grounde off the hert, ad search the reynes and rewarde euery ma acordinge to his wayes, and acordinge to the frute off his councels.
I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reines, euen to giue euery man according to his waies, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Euen I the Lorde searche out the grounde of the heart, & trye the raynes, and rewarde euery man accordyng to his wayes, and accordyng to the fruite of his workes.
I the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his devices.
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Y am the Lord sekynge the herte, and preuynge the reynes, and Y yyue to ech man after his weye, and aftir the fruyt of his fyndyngis.
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.
I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.
I, the Lord , probe into people's minds. I examine people's hearts. I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.
I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.
But I, the Lord , search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve."
I the Lord look into the heart, and test the mind. I give to each man what he should have because of his ways and because of the fruit that comes from his works.
I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings.
I - Yahweh, Searching the heart, Testing the affections; And giving to every man According to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.
I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.
"I the LORD search the mind and try the heart, to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings."
I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.
"I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the Lord: Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 20:12, 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 1 Chronicles 29:17, 2 Chronicles 6:30, Psalms 7:9, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:2, Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24, Proverbs 17:3, John 2:25, Romans 8:27, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:23
even: Jeremiah 32:19, Psalms 62:12, Matthew 16:27, Romans 2:6-8, Revelation 20:12, Revelation 22:12
fruit: Jeremiah 21:14, Jeremiah 32:19, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, Micah 7:13, Romans 6:21, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 18:21 - see Numbers 5:16 - set her Deuteronomy 8:2 - to know Deuteronomy 15:9 - Beware Joshua 22:22 - he knoweth Judges 3:1 - prove 1 Samuel 2:3 - a God 1 Kings 8:39 - give to every man Job 1:5 - in their hearts Job 9:21 - yet would Job 11:11 - he knoweth Job 13:9 - search Job 34:21 - General Job 42:2 - no Psalms 11:4 - his eyes Psalms 16:7 - my reins Psalms 44:21 - Shall Psalms 64:6 - they accomplish Proverbs 5:21 - General Proverbs 15:11 - the hearts Proverbs 16:2 - but Proverbs 21:2 - the Lord Proverbs 24:12 - doth not he that Isaiah 59:18 - According Jeremiah 6:19 - even Jeremiah 42:20 - For ye Ezekiel 11:5 - for Zechariah 7:6 - did not ye eat for Matthew 6:4 - seeth Matthew 12:25 - Jesus Matthew 23:28 - ye also Luke 9:47 - perceiving Luke 16:15 - God John 5:19 - and John 21:17 - Lord Acts 1:24 - Lord Acts 15:8 - which Galatians 6:5 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:4 - but God 1 John 3:20 - and
Cross-References
Overwhelmed, Abram fell flat on his face. Then God said to him, "This is my covenant with you: You'll be the father of many nations. Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, meaning that ‘I'm making you the father of many nations.' I'll make you a father of fathers—I'll make nations from you, kings will issue from you. I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, a covenant that includes your descendants, a covenant that goes on and on and on, a covenant that commits me to be your God and the God of your descendants. And I'm giving you and your descendants this land where you're now just camping, this whole country of Canaan, to own forever. And I'll be their God."
God continued to Abraham, "And you: You will honor my covenant, you and your descendants, generation after generation. This is the covenant that you are to honor, the covenant that pulls in all your descendants: Circumcise every male. Circumcise by cutting off the foreskin of the penis; it will be the sign of the covenant between us. Every male baby will be circumcised when he is eight days old, generation after generation—this includes house-born slaves and slaves bought from outsiders who are not blood kin. Make sure you circumcise both your own children and anyone brought in from the outside. That way my covenant will be cut into your body, a permanent mark of my permanent covenant. An uncircumcised male, one who has not had the foreskin of his penis cut off, will be cut off from his people—he has broken my covenant."
Recovering, Abraham said to God, "Oh, keep Ishmael alive and well before you!"
But God said, "That's not what I mean. Your wife, Sarah, will have a baby, a son. Name him Isaac (Laughter). I'll establish my covenant with him and his descendants, a covenant that lasts forever.
"If an immigrant is staying with you and wants to keep the Passover to God , every male in his family must be circumcised, then he can participate in the Meal—he will then be treated as a native son. But no uncircumcised person can eat it.
God , your God, will cut away the thick calluses on your heart and your children's hearts, freeing you to love God , your God, with your whole heart and soul and live, really live. God , your God, will put all these curses on your enemies who hated you and were out to get you.
At that time God said to Joshua, "Make stone knives and circumcise the People of Israel a second time." So Joshua made stone knives and circumcised the People of Israel at Foreskins Hill.
This is why Joshua conducted the circumcision. All the males who had left Egypt, the soldiers, had died in the wilderness on the journey out of Egypt. All the people who had come out of Egypt, of course, had been circumcised, but all those born in the wilderness along the way since leaving Egypt had not been. The fact is that the People of Israel had walked through that wilderness for forty years until the entire nation died out, all the men of military age who had come out of Egypt but had disobeyed the call of God . God vowed that these would never lay eyes on the land God had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. But their children had replaced them. These are the ones Joshua circumcised. They had never been circumcised; no one had circumcised them along the way.
"Then he made a covenant with him and signed it in Abraham's flesh by circumcision. When Abraham had his son Isaac, within eight days he reproduced the sign of circumcision in him. Isaac became father of Jacob, and Jacob father of twelve ‘fathers,' each faithfully passing on the covenant sign.
God sacrificed Jesus on the altar of the world to clear that world of sin. Having faith in him sets us in the clear. God decided on this course of action in full view of the public—to set the world in the clear with himself through the sacrifice of Jesus, finally taking care of the sins he had so patiently endured. This is not only clear, but it's now—this is current history! God sets things right. He also makes it possible for us to live in his rightness.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I the Lord search the heart,.... The inward parts of it, every room and corner in it; and know the thoughts of it; all its intents, purposes, designs, contrivances, and imaginations; all the secret motions of it, and the wickedness that is in it; so that this is an answer to the question in the preceding verse; and therefore, though the heart is deceitful, it cannot deceive him, because he judges not according to outward appearance; he sees and knows the heart; and none but the Lord, or he who is Jehovah, can so search the heart as thus to know it; wherefore, since Christ is said to search the reins and the heart, and to know the thoughts of men, and to be a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, he must be Jehovah, and the true God, Revelation 2:23:
I try the reins; the most inward and remote parts, covered with fat, and out of sight: these are the seat of the affections; and the Lord tries these, whether they are towards him or not; and whether sincere or hypocritical; Christ the omniscient God knew Peter's love to him, and the sincerity of it; for which he appeals to him as such,
John 21:17:
even to give every man accordions to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings; to do which it is necessary to search the heart, and try the reins, the fountain of all actions; and in which the principles of them are, and according to which they are denominated and judged of: in the future judgment every secret thing will be brought into account; the counsels of the heart will be made manifest; the book of conscience will be opened; and out of it, as well as other books, men will be judged according to their ways and works; and therefore it is requisite that the Judge should be the Lord God omniscient, the searcher and trier of the hearts and reins, as Christ is.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin.
Jeremiah 17:6
Like the heath - Or, “like a destitute man” Psalms 102:17. The verbs “he shall see” (or fear) and “shall inhabit” plainly show that a man is here meant and not a plant.
Jeremiah 17:8
The river - Or, “water-course” Isaiah 30:25, made for purposes of irrigation.
Shall not see - Or, “shall not fear Jeremiah 17:6.” God’s people feel trouble as much as other people, but they do not fear it because they know
(1) that it is for their good, and
(2) that God will give them strength to bear it.
Jeremiah 17:9
The train of thought is apparently this: If the man is so blessed Jeremiah 17:7-8 who trusts in Yahweh, what is the reason why men so generally “make flesh their arm”? And the answer is: Because man’s heart is incapable of seeing things in a straightforward manner, but is full of shrewd guile, and ever seeking to overreach others.
Desperately wicked - Rather, mortally sick.
Jeremiah 17:10
The answer to the question, “who can know it?” To himself a man’s heart is an inscrutable mystery: God alone can fathom it.
Ways - Rather, way, his course of life. The “and” must be omitted, for the last clause explains what is meant “by man’s way,” when he comes before God for judgment. It is “the fruit,” the final result “of his doings, i. e., his real character as formed by the acts and habits of his life.
Jeremiah 17:11
Rather, “As the partridge hath gathered eggs which it laid not, so ...” The general sense is: the covetous man is as sure to reap finally disappointment only as is the partridge which piles up eggs not of her own laying, and is unable to hatch them.
A fool - A Nabal. See 1 Samuel 25:25.
Jeremiah 17:12, Jeremiah 17:13
Or, “Thou throne ... thou place ... thou hope ... Yahweh! All that forsake Thee etc.” The prophet concludes his prediction with the expression of his own trust in Yahweh, and confidence that the divine justice will finally be vindicated by the punishment of the wicked. The “throne of glory” is equivalent to Him who is enthroned in glory.
Jeremiah 17:13
Shall be written in the earth - i. e., their names shall quickly disappear, unlike those graven in the rock forever Job 19:24. A board covered with sand is used in the East to this day in schools for giving lessons in writing: but writing inscribed on such materials is intended to be immediately obliterated. Equally fleeting is the existence of those who forsake God. “All men are written somewhere, the saints in heaven, but sinners upon earth” (Origen).
Jeremiah 17:15
This taunt shows that this prophecy was written before any very signal fulfillment of Jeremiah’s words had taken place, and prior therefore to the capture of Jerusalem at the close of Jehoiakim’s life. “Now” means “I pray,” and is ironical.
Jeremiah 17:16
I have not hastened from - i. e., I have not sought to escape from.
A pastor to follow thee - Rather, “a shepherd after Thee.” “Shepherd” means “ruler, magistrate” (Jeremiah 2:8 note), and belongs to the prophet not as a teacher, but as one invested with authority by God to guide and direct the political course of the nation. So Yahweh guides His people Psalms 23:1-2, and the prophet does so “after Him,” following obediently His instructions.
The woeful day - literally, “the day of mortal sickness:” the day on which Jerusalem was to be destroyed, and the temple burned.
Right - Omit the word. What Jeremiah asserts is that he spake as in God’s presence. They were no words of his own, but had the authority of Him before whom he stood. Compare Jeremiah 15:19.
Jeremiah 17:17
A terror - Rather, “a cause of dismay,” or consternation Jeremiah 1:17. By not fulfilling Jeremiah’s prediction God Himself seemed to put him to shame.
Jeremiah 17:18
Confounded - Put to shame.
Destroy them ... - Rather, break them with a double breaking: a twofold punishment, the first their general share in the miseries attendant upon their country’s fall; the second, a special punishment for their sin in persecuting and mocking God’s prophet.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 17:10. I the Lord search the heart — The Lord is called by his apostles, Acts 1:24, Καρδιογνωστης, the Knower of the heart. To him alone can this epithet be applied; and it is from him alone that we can derive that instruction by which we can in any measure know ourselves.
