THEOSISJeremiah 17:1Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond, it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of their altars.
חַטַּ֣את יְהוּדָ֗ה כְּתוּבָ֛ה בְּעֵ֥ט בַּרְזֶ֖ל בְּצִפֹּ֣רֶן שָׁמִ֑יר חֲרוּשָׁה֙ עַל־ל֣וּחַ לִבָּ֔ם וּלְקַרְנ֖וֹת מִזְבְּחוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 3:3Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.
- 2 Cor 3:3Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart.
- Prov 7:3Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.
- Lev 4:25The priest shall dip his finger in the blood of the victim for sin, touching therewith the horns of the altar of holocaust, and pouring out the rest at the foot thereof.
- Hos 12:11If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
- Job 19:23Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?
- Job 19:24With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone?
- Lev 4:17And shall dip his finger in it and sprinkle it seven times before the veil.