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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:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 17:11

partridge— (I Samuel 26:20). Hebrew, korea, from a root, "to call," alluding to its cry; a name still applied to a bustard by the Arabs. Its nest is liable, being on the ground, to be trodden under foot, or robbed by carnivorous animals, notwithstanding all the beautiful manoeuvres of the parent birds to save the brood. The translation, "sitteth on eggs which it has not laid," alludes to the ancient notion that she stole the eggs of other birds and hatched them as her own; and that the young birds when grown left her for the true mother. It is not needful to make Scripture allude to an exploded notion, as if it were true. MAURER thinks the reference is to Jehoiakim's grasping cupidity (Jeremiah 22:13-17). Probably the sense is more general; as previously He condemned trust in man (Jeremiah 17:5), He now condemns another object of the deceitful hearts' trust, unjustly gotten riches (Psalms 39:6; Psalms 49:16-17; Psalms 55:23).

fool— (Proverbs 23:5; Luke 12:20); "their folly" (Psalms 49:13). He himself, and all, shall at last perceive he was not the wise man he thought he was.




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