Hebrews 3:10

3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering ¹  and they have not known my ways.’

Genesis 8:21

8:21 And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma ²  and said ³  to himself, ⁴  “I will never again curse ⁵  the ground because of humankind, even though ⁶  the inclination of their minds ⁷  is evil from childhood on. ⁸  I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

Jeremiah 2:13

2:13 “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong:

they have rejected me,

the fountain of life-giving water, ⁹ 

and they have dug cisterns for themselves,

cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”

Jeremiah 3:17

3:17 At that time the city of Jerusalem ¹⁰  will be called the Lord’s throne. All nations will gather there in Jerusalem to honor the Lord’s name. ¹¹  They will no longer follow the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. ¹² 

Jeremiah 7:24

7:24 But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They followed the stubborn inclinations of their own wicked hearts. They acted worse and worse instead of better. ¹³ 

Jeremiah 11:8

11:8 But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart. So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do.’” ¹⁴ 

Jeremiah 16:12

16:12 And you have acted even more wickedly than your ancestors! Each one of you has followed the stubborn inclinations of your own wicked heart and not obeyed me. ¹⁵ 

Jeremiah 17:9

17:9 The human mind is more deceitful than anything else.

It is incurably bad. ¹⁶  Who can understand it?

Jeremiah 18:12

18:12 But they just keep saying, ‘We do not care what you say! ¹⁷  We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!’” ¹⁸ 

Mark 7:21-23

7:21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder, 7:22 adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly. 7:23 All these evils come from within and defile a person.”

[3:10]  ¹ tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”

[8:21]  ² tn The Lord “smelled” (וַיָּרַח, vayyarakh) a “soothing smell” (רֵיחַ הַנִּיהֹחַ, reakh hannihoakh). The object forms a cognate accusative with the verb. The language is anthropomorphic. The offering had a sweet aroma that pleased or soothed. The expression in Lev 1 signifies that God accepts the offering with pleasure, and in accepting the offering he accepts the worshiper.

[8:21]  ³ tn Heb “and the Lord said.”

[8:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “in his heart.”

[8:21]  ⁵ tn Here the Hebrew word translated “curse” is קָלָל (qalal), used in the Piel verbal stem.

[8:21]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew particle כִּי (ki) can be used in a concessive sense (see BDB 473 s.v. כִּי), which makes good sense in this context. Its normal causal sense (“for”) does not fit the context here very well.

[8:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “the inclination of the heart of humankind.”

[8:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “from his youth.”

[2:13]  ⁹ tn It is difficult to decide whether to translate “fresh, running water” which the Hebrew term for “living water” often refers to (e.g., Gen 26:19; Lev 14:5), or “life-giving water” which the idiom “fountain of life” as source of life and vitality often refers to (e.g., Ps 36:9; Prov 13:14; 14:27). The contrast with cisterns, which collected and held rain water, suggests “fresh, running water,” but the reality underlying the metaphor contrasts the Lord, the source of life, health, and vitality, with useless idols that cannot do anything.

[3:17]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[3:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “will gather to the name of the Lord.”

[3:17]  ¹² tn Heb “the stubbornness of their evil hearts.”

[7:24]  ¹³ tn Or “They went backward and not forward”; Heb “They were to the backward and not to the forward.” The two phrases used here appear nowhere else in the Bible and the latter preposition plus adverb elsewhere is used temporally meaning “formerly” or “previously.” The translation follows the proposal of J. Bright, Jeremiah (AB), 57. Another option is “they turned their backs to me, not their faces,” understanding the line as a variant of a line in 2:27.

[11:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “So I brought on them all the terms of this covenant which I commanded to do and they did not do.” There is an interesting polarity that is being exploited by two different nuances implicit in the use of the word “terms” (דִּבְרֵי [divre], literally “words”), i.e., what the Lord “brings on” them, namely, the curses that are the penalty for disobedience and the stipulations that they are “to do,” that is, to carry out. The sentence is broken up this way in keeping with contemporary English style to avoid the long and complicated style of the original.

[16:12]  ¹⁵ sn For the argumentation here compare Jer 7:23-26.

[17:9]  ¹⁶ tn Or “incurably deceitful”; Heb “It is incurable.” For the word “deceitful” compare the usage of the verb in Gen 27:36 and a related noun in 2 Kgs 10:19. For the adjective “incurable” compare the usage in Jer 15:18. It is most commonly used with reference to wounds or of pain. In Jer 17:16 it is used metaphorically for a “woeful day” (i.e., day of irreparable devastation).

[18:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “It is useless!” See the same expression in a similar context in Jer 2:25.

[18:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “We will follow our own plans and do each one according to the stubbornness of his own wicked heart.”