Jeremiah 17:7 (DBY)

Passage

Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is.

Nearby Context

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that confideth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.

Jeremiah 17:6 And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is.

Jeremiah 17:8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the stream, and he shall not see when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and in the year of drought he shall not be careful, neither shall he cease to yield fruit.

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "blessed", "confideth", "jehovah", "whose", and "confidence". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "blessed" and "confideth", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "And he shall be like the heath..." into verse 8's "For he shall be like a tree...", so "blessed" and "confideth" belong inside that flow. In Jeremiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "blessed" and "confideth" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.