Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?” The word used here for deceitful is very curious. It is the ‘aqov. It comes from the same root where we get the word Jacob which means to grab by the heel. It is from this story of
Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Boy, Jeremiah loved that word deceitful. Here it is again. Only unlike Jeremiah 20:7 where he uses the word patah which is rendered as deceived in many translations but has more of the idea of being seduced or
