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Jeremiah 17:11
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9 “The aheart is deceitful above all things,
And1 desperately wicked;
Who can know it? 
10 I, the Lord, asearch the heart,
I test the1 mind,
bEven to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings. 
11 “As a partridge that1 broods but does not hatch,
So is he who gets riches, but not by right;
It awill leave him in the midst of his days,
And at his end he will be ba fool.” 
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning
Is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O Lord, athe hope of Israel,
bAll who forsake You shall be ashamed.
“Those who depart from Me
Shall be cwritten in the earth,
Because they have forsaken the Lord,
The dfountain of living waters.” 

Jeremiah Prays for Deliverance

14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;
Save me, and I shall be saved,
For aYou are my praise. 
15 Indeed they say to me,
a“Where is the word of the Lord?
Let it come now!” 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge - kore . It is very likely that this was a bird different from our partridge. The text Dr. Blayney translates thus: -

\ri720 (As) the kore that hatcheth what it doth not lay (So is) he who getteth riches, and not according to right.

"The covetous man," says Dahler, "who heaps up riches by unjust ways, is compared to a bird which hatches the eggs of other fowls. And as the young, when hatched, and able at all to shift for themselves, abandon her who is not their mother, and leave her nothing to compensate her trouble, so the covetous man loses those unjustly-gotten treasures, and the fruit of his labor."

And at his end shall be a fool - Shall be reputed as such. He was a fool all the way through; he lost his soul to get wealth, and this wealth he never enjoyed. To him also are applicable those strong words of the poet: -

"O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake

The wretch throws up his interest in both worlds.

First starved in this, then damned in that to come."

Blair.


 
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