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Jeremiah 17:1–2

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The Heart Is Hopelessly Dark and Deceitful

1–217“Judah’s sin is engraved

with a steel chisel,

A steel chisel with a diamond point—

engraved on their granite hearts,

engraved on the stone corners of their altars.

The evidence against them is plain to see:

sex-and-religion altars and sacred sex shrines

Anywhere there’s a grove of trees,

anywhere there’s an available hill.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars, while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool,

inscribed with a flint point,

on the tablets of their hearts

and on the horns of their altars.

Even their children remember

their altars and Asherah poles

beside the spreading trees

and on the high hills.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The sin of Judah is inscribed

with an iron stylus.

With a diamond point

it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts

and on the horns of their altars,

while their children remember their altars

and their Asherah poles, by the green trees

on the high hills—

NLTNew Living Translation

“The sin of Judah

is inscribed with an iron chisel—

engraved with a diamond point on their stony hearts

and on the corners of their altars.

Even their children go to worship

at their pagan altars and Asherah poles,

beneath every green tree

and on every high hill.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus,

with a point of diamond it is engraved

on the tablet of their heart,

and on the horns of their altars.

As the remembering of their children,

so is the remembering of their altars

and their poles of Asherah worship

beside the leafy trees on the high hills.

KJV 1900King 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; Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.