Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
WEB
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
YLT
Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable--who doth know it?
DBT
The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.
- Author
- Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
- Date
- Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile