Jeremiah 17:1 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 17:1

“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

KJV

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

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Commentary

5 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron,.... Or an iron tool, such as engravers use in working on hard matter: and with the point of a diamond; such as glaziers use in cutting their glass; though this is not the word used for a diamond in Exo 28:18, this word is elsewhere translated an adamant, Eze 3:9. Bothart (h) takes it to be the smiris, which jewellers use in polishing their gems.

The record, by era

The Reformation1 voice

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

It indeed often happens, that men fall; but God, who is ever inclined to mercy, forgives them; and they are also often led astray through levity, and thus their sins are not engraven on their hearts.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Their sin is deeply engraven as with a pen of iron in the tables of their hearts. They have a rooted affection to it; it is woven into their very nature; their sin is dear to them, as that is dear to us of which we say, It is engraven on our hearts.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 812: “The Deep-Seated Character of Sin” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1868)

IN traveling in the East, inscriptions upon the rocks are often met with, which have remained almost as sharp and clear as when they were first cut by the engraver's tool. Some of these owe their indelible character to the hardness of the rocks upon which they have been engraved. They must have been written, to use the expressive language before us, "with a pen of iron," and engraved as "with the point of a diamond."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The first of the four clauses relates to the third, the second to the fourth, by alternate parallelism. The sense is: They are as keen after idols as if their propensity was "graven with an iron pen (Job 19:24) on their hearts," or as if it were sanctioned by a law "inscribed with a diamond point" on their altars.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
חַטַּ֣את	cha.Tat	[the] sin of	H2403 →
יְהוּדָ֗ה	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →
כְּתוּבָ֛ה	ke.tu.Vah	[is] inscribed	H3789 →
בְּעֵ֥ט	be.'Et	with a stylus of	H5842 →
בַּרְזֶ֖ל	bar.Zel	iron	H1270 →
בְּצִפֹּ֣רֶן	be.tzi.Po.ren	with a point of	H6856 →
שָׁמִ֑יר	sha.Mir	flint	H8068 →
חֲרוּשָׁה֙	cha.ru.Shah	[is] engraved	H2790 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
ל֣וּחַ	Lu.ach	[the] tablet of	H3871 →
לִבָּ֔ם	li.Bam	heart their	H3820 →
וּלְקַרְנ֖וֹת	u.le.kar.Not	and to [the] horns of	H7161 →
מִזְבְּחוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃	miz.be.cho.tei.Khem	altars your	H4196 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 3:3
Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 3:3
  It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 10:16
  “This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 7:3
  Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Through
2 Corinthians 3:3
It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on…
leads to
- Jeremiah 31:33
  “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 11:19
  And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
Through
Proverbs 7:3
Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 11:18–20
  Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Proverbs 3:3
  Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Deuteronomy 6:8–9
  Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.