Jeremiah 17:9-11
Legacy Standard Bible
9 “The (A)heart is more (B)deceitful than all else
And is [a]desperately (C)sick;
Who can know it?
10 I, Yahweh, (D)search the heart;
I test the [b]inmost being,
Even (E)to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his deeds.
11 As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid,
So is he who (F)makes a fortune, but unjustly;
In the midst of his days it will forsake him,
And in [c]the end he will be a (G)wicked fool.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:9 Or incurably
- Jeremiah 17:10 Lit kidneys
- Jeremiah 17:11 Lit his
Jeremiah 17:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 The heart is devious above all else;
it is perverse—
who can understand it?(A)
10 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.(B)
11 Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay,
so are all who amass wealth unjustly;
in midlife it will leave them,
and at their end they will prove to be fools.
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