KJV King James Version
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;
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Jeremiah 17:1
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;
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
“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.
WEB World English Bible
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;
ASV American Standard Version
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;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond, Graven on the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 17
1 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;
2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, [which] shall burn for ever.
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חַטַּ֣אתH2403 · chat.ta.ahsinיְהוּדָ֗הH3063 · ye.hu.dahJudahכְּתוּבָ֛הH3789 · ka.tavto writeבְּעֵ֥טH5842 · etstylusבַּרְזֶ֖לH1270 · bar.zelironבְּצִפֹּ֣רֶןH6856 · tsip.po.renfingernailשָׁמִ֑ירH8068 · sha.mirthornחֲרוּשָׁה֙H2790 · cha.rashto plow/plotעַל־H5921 · aluponל֣וּחַH3871 · lu.achtabletלִבָּ֔םH3820 · levheartוּלְקַרְנ֖וֹתH7161 · qe.renhornמִזְבְּחוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃H4196 · miz.be.achaltar
Cross-references
Proverbs 3:3Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:2 Corinthians 3:3[Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.Proverbs 7:3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.Leviticus 4:25And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.Job 19:23-24Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!Hosea 12:11[Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.Leviticus 4:17-18And the priest shall dip his finger [in some] of the blood, and sprinkle [it] seven times before the LORD, [even] before the vail.
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