Jeremiah 17:1. The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond:
It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to erase an inscription that is written upon steel with the point of a diamond as hope to get this perversity out of the nation; it is graven upon the tablets of their heart. What is mere habit can be altered, but what is ingrained in the heart cannot be taken away except by a, miracle of grace. It was the heart that was wrong; the fountain-head was polluted, so what could the streams be but foul.
Jeremiah 17:1. It is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
Their holiest things were defiled. They wrote up the names of their idol gods even upon God’s altar, and so they bore a written testimony against themselves.
Jeremiah 17:1. The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond:
It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to erase an inscription that is written upon steel with the point of a diamond as hope to get this perversity out of the nation; it is graven upon the tablets of their heart. What is mere habit can be altered, but what is ingrained in the heart cannot be taken away except by a, miracle of grace. It was the heart that was wrong; the fountain-head was polluted, so what could the streams be but foul.
Jeremiah 17:1. It is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
Their holiest things were defiled. They wrote up the names of their idol gods even upon God’s altar, and so they bore a written testimony against themselves.