Skip to content
mannafest.faith
Read

Jeremiah 17:5

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.

KJV

Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

⋯

Commentary

2 voices

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

15 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כֹּ֣ה׀kohthusH3541 →
אָמַ֣ר'a.Marhe saysH559 →
יְהוָ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
אָר֤וּר'a.Rur[is] cursedH779 →
הַגֶּ֙בֶר֙ha.Ge.verthe manH1397 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhoH834 →
יִבְטַ֣חyiv.Tachhe trustsH982 →
בָּֽאָדָ֔םba.'a.Damin <the> humankindH120 →
וְשָׂ֥םve.Samand he makesH7760 →
בָּשָׂ֖רba.SarfleshH1320 →
זְרֹע֑וֹze.ro.'Ostrength hisH2220 →
וּמִן־u.min-and fromH4480 →
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
יָס֥וּרya.Surit turns asideH5493 →
לִבּֽוֹ׃li.Boheart hisH3820 →

The walk

Related verses

18 strongest cross-references

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Psalms 118:8–9It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.Psalms 146:3–4Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.Isaiah 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?Hebrews 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.2 Chronicles 32:8With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.Isaiah 31:1–9Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.Isaiah 30:1–7“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.Isaiah 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.Isaiah 36:6Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.Psalms 18:21For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.Ezekiel 29:6–7Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel.2 Chronicles 16:12In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.Ezekiel 6:9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.Psalms 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”Hosea 1:2When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”Isaiah 59:15Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

Featured studies on this passage

Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, Prayer of David — Jean Colombe

Walks through Jeremiah 17

The Heart

Open the study →

The Last Supper — Juan de Juanes

Walks through Jeremiah 17

The New Covenant — Jeremiah 31:31–34

Open the study →

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read chapter 17 →The featured study →
Continue: Jeremiah 17 →