耶利米书 17:10

Chinese Union (Simplified)

我 ─ 耶 和 华 是 鉴 察 人 心 、 试 验 人 肺 腑 的 ， 要 照 各 人 所 行 的 和 他 做 事 的 结 果 报 应 他 。

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
“我耶和華是察透人心，試驗人肺腑的，要照著各人的行為，和各人所作的事應得的結果報應各人。”

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord: Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 20:12, 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 1 Chronicles 29:17, 2 Chronicles 6:30, Psalms 7:9, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:2, Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24, Proverbs 17:3, John 2:25, Romans 8:27, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:23

even: Jeremiah 32:19, Psalms 62:12, Matthew 16:27, Romans 2:6-8, Revelation 20:12, Revelation 22:12

fruit: Jeremiah 21:14, Jeremiah 32:19, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, Micah 7:13, Romans 6:21, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:21 - see Numbers 5:16 - set her Deuteronomy 8:2 - to know Deuteronomy 15:9 - Beware Joshua 22:22 - he knoweth Judges 3:1 - prove 1 Samuel 2:3 - a God 1 Kings 8:39 - give to every man Job 1:5 - in their hearts Job 9:21 - yet would Job 11:11 - he knoweth Job 13:9 - search Job 34:21 - General Job 42:2 - no Psalms 11:4 - his eyes Psalms 16:7 - my reins Psalms 44:21 - Shall Psalms 64:6 - they accomplish Proverbs 5:21 - General Proverbs 15:11 - the hearts Proverbs 16:2 - but Proverbs 21:2 - the Lord Proverbs 24:12 - doth not he that Isaiah 59:18 - According Jeremiah 6:19 - even Jeremiah 42:20 - For ye Ezekiel 11:5 - for Zechariah 7:6 - did not ye eat for Matthew 6:4 - seeth Matthew 12:25 - Jesus Matthew 23:28 - ye also Luke 9:47 - perceiving Luke 16:15 - God John 5:19 - and John 21:17 - Lord Acts 1:24 - Lord Acts 15:8 - which Galatians 6:5 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:4 - but God 1 John 3:20 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I the Lord search the heart,.... The inward parts of it, every room and corner in it; and know the thoughts of it; all its intents, purposes, designs, contrivances, and imaginations; all the secret motions of it, and the wickedness that is in it; so that this is an answer to the question in the preceding verse; and therefore, though the heart is deceitful, it cannot deceive him, because he judges not according to outward appearance; he sees and knows the heart; and none but the Lord, or he who is Jehovah, can so search the heart as thus to know it; wherefore, since Christ is said to search the reins and the heart, and to know the thoughts of men, and to be a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, he must be Jehovah, and the true God, Revelation 2:23:

I try the reins; the most inward and remote parts, covered with fat, and out of sight: these are the seat of the affections; and the Lord tries these, whether they are towards him or not; and whether sincere or hypocritical; Christ the omniscient God knew Peter's love to him, and the sincerity of it; for which he appeals to him as such,

John 21:17:

even to give every man accordions to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings; to do which it is necessary to search the heart, and try the reins, the fountain of all actions; and in which the principles of them are, and according to which they are denominated and judged of: in the future judgment every secret thing will be brought into account; the counsels of the heart will be made manifest; the book of conscience will be opened; and out of it, as well as other books, men will be judged according to their ways and works; and therefore it is requisite that the Judge should be the Lord God omniscient, the searcher and trier of the hearts and reins, as Christ is.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin.

Jeremiah 17:6

Like the heath - Or, “like a destitute man” Psalms 102:17. The verbs “he shall see” (or fear) and “shall inhabit” plainly show that a man is here meant and not a plant.

Jeremiah 17:8

The river - Or, “water-course” Isaiah 30:25, made for purposes of irrigation.

Shall not see - Or, “shall not fear Jeremiah 17:6.” God’s people feel trouble as much as other people, but they do not fear it because they know

(1) that it is for their good, and

(2) that God will give them strength to bear it.

Jeremiah 17:9

The train of thought is apparently this: If the man is so blessed Jeremiah 17:7-8 who trusts in Yahweh, what is the reason why men so generally “make flesh their arm”? And the answer is: Because man’s heart is incapable of seeing things in a straightforward manner, but is full of shrewd guile, and ever seeking to overreach others.

Desperately wicked - Rather, mortally sick.

Jeremiah 17:10

The answer to the question, “who can know it?” To himself a man’s heart is an inscrutable mystery: God alone can fathom it.

Ways - Rather, way, his course of life. The “and” must be omitted, for the last clause explains what is meant “by man’s way,” when he comes before God for judgment. It is “the fruit,” the final result “of his doings, i. e., his real character as formed by the acts and habits of his life.

Jeremiah 17:11

Rather, “As the partridge hath gathered eggs which it laid not, so ...” The general sense is: the covetous man is as sure to reap finally disappointment only as is the partridge which piles up eggs not of her own laying, and is unable to hatch them.

A fool - A Nabal. See 1 Samuel 25:25.

Jeremiah 17:12, Jeremiah 17:13

Or, “Thou throne ... thou place ... thou hope ... Yahweh! All that forsake Thee etc.” The prophet concludes his prediction with the expression of his own trust in Yahweh, and confidence that the divine justice will finally be vindicated by the punishment of the wicked. The “throne of glory” is equivalent to Him who is enthroned in glory.

Jeremiah 17:13

Shall be written in the earth - i. e., their names shall quickly disappear, unlike those graven in the rock forever Job 19:24. A board covered with sand is used in the East to this day in schools for giving lessons in writing: but writing inscribed on such materials is intended to be immediately obliterated. Equally fleeting is the existence of those who forsake God. “All men are written somewhere, the saints in heaven, but sinners upon earth” (Origen).

Jeremiah 17:15

This taunt shows that this prophecy was written before any very signal fulfillment of Jeremiah’s words had taken place, and prior therefore to the capture of Jerusalem at the close of Jehoiakim’s life. “Now” means “I pray,” and is ironical.

Jeremiah 17:16

I have not hastened from - i. e., I have not sought to escape from.

A pastor to follow thee - Rather, “a shepherd after Thee.” “Shepherd” means “ruler, magistrate” (Jeremiah 2:8 note), and belongs to the prophet not as a teacher, but as one invested with authority by God to guide and direct the political course of the nation. So Yahweh guides His people Psalms 23:1-2, and the prophet does so “after Him,” following obediently His instructions.

The woeful day - literally, “the day of mortal sickness:” the day on which Jerusalem was to be destroyed, and the temple burned.

Right - Omit the word. What Jeremiah asserts is that he spake as in God’s presence. They were no words of his own, but had the authority of Him before whom he stood. Compare Jeremiah 15:19.

Jeremiah 17:17

A terror - Rather, “a cause of dismay,” or consternation Jeremiah 1:17. By not fulfilling Jeremiah’s prediction God Himself seemed to put him to shame.

Jeremiah 17:18

Confounded - Put to shame.

Destroy them ... - Rather, break them with a double breaking: a twofold punishment, the first their general share in the miseries attendant upon their country’s fall; the second, a special punishment for their sin in persecuting and mocking God’s prophet.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 17:10. I the Lord search the heart — The Lord is called by his apostles, Acts 1:24, Καρδιογνωστης, the Knower of the heart. To him alone can this epithet be applied; and it is from him alone that we can derive that instruction by which we can in any measure know ourselves.