10. The ninth verse closes with the question: Who can know it? This verse answers it Only God. He can probe it to the core, and understand all its crookedness and perverseness. Ways Literally, way. Omit the “and” inserted by the translators. read more
11. Partridge Literally, the caller. It is uncertain what bird is meant, but the weight of testimony lies in favour of the common version. Sitteth, etc. Rather, gathereth eggs she hath not brought forth. There is no proof of any such habit on the part of this bird. The saying is probably a proverbial one, and so is accounted for by the existence of the proverb. It is a fit illustration of the folly of the man who accumulates by fraud and treachery, to be finally dispossessed of his... read more
12. Glorious high throne Here commences a brief but most impressive invocation of Jehovah. The copula should not be used in this verse, as such a cold, dogmatic statement would be here most inappropriate. These phrases are a part of the invocation. As the mind mounts up to God, it first rests on what might be called the externals of his presence, and, through these, approaches his personality. O throne of glory, set on high (literally, loftiness) from the beginning, place of our... read more
13. Written in the earth Where they shall soon disappear. In Exodus 32:32, it is implied that the friends of God have their names written in his book, and in Daniel 12:1, this is called the “book of life.” “Written in the earth” stands in contrast with this book of God’s remembrance. That depart from me One of many instances in which the prophet seems to identify himself with Jehovah, so that to leave one would be to leave the other. read more
PRAYER FOR PROTECTION AND SAFETY, Jeremiah 17:14-18. 14. Heal… save Here begins the prophet’s prayer for himself, and the paragraph division should come here. read more
16. A pastor to follow thee Better, a shepherd after thee. The woful day Literally, the day of mortal sickness: the day of judgment and calamity to the city and nation. Was right before thee Omit the misleading word “right” inserted by the translators. The meaning is: I have spoken as in God’s presence. No higher claim could be set up by an ambassador of heaven. Did every Christian minister always have as realizing and vivid a sense of God’s presence as of the presence of his fellow... read more
18. Let not me be confounded This prayer for himself becomes here a prayer against his enemies, and yet not so much foes of Jeremiah as of Jehovah. It is not personal hate and vindictiveness which breathes through these words, but love for God and jealousy for his honour. read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 17:9
9. The heart is deceitful The connexion is this: Man trusts in his fellowman in obedience to the natural impulses of his heart, and because he thinks him trustworthy; but “the heart is deceitful.” Our own impulses are crooked and perverse, and, for a similar reason, our fellowmen are untrustworthy. Desperately wicked Literally, mortally sick. read more