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For he will be like a tree planted by water,
    and to the stream it sends its roots,
and it will not fear when heat comes,
    and its leaves[a] will be luxuriant,
and in the year of drought it will not be anxious,
    and it will not cease from the bearing of fruit.
The heart is deceitful more than anything else,
    and it is disastrous. Who can understand it?
10 I, Yahweh, examine the mind,[b]
    I test the heart,[c]
and give to each one according to his way,
    according to the fruit of his deeds.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:8 Hebrew “leaf”
  2. Jeremiah 17:10 Literally “heart”
  3. Jeremiah 17:10 Literally “kidneys”

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

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

10 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.

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