Sources of Sorrow—a Deceitful Heart

Scripture

KJV

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

ESV

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Jeremiah 17:9

Poem

With flowing tears, Lord, I confess,
My folly and unsteadfestness;
When shall this heart more stable be,
Fixed by thy grace alone on thee?
Grace