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Jeremiah 17:7

But blessed is the one who trusts in me, whose confidence is in me.

Jeremiah 17:7 · Father's Heart Bible™ · Spoken by the Father

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What Jeremiah 17:7 means

Jeremiah 17:7 is our Father speaking through the prophet Jeremiah: “But blessed is the one who trusts in me, whose confidence is in me.” It is the second half of a contrast he draws on purpose, and the word “But” points back to the first half.

Two verses earlier he says, “Cursed is the one who trusts in mere humans, who relies on human strength, and whose heart turns away from me.” That person is like a bush in the wasteland, living “in a salt land where no one lives.” The one who trusts in our Father is pictured the opposite way: “like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots by the stream.” Both are spoken to Judah, whose sin, the chapter begins, was engraved “on the tablet of their heart.”

The promise is not that the heat never comes. Verse 8 says the tree “has no fear when heat comes” and “is not anxious in the year of drought.” The drought is real; what changes is where the roots reach. Blessing here is not a trouble-free life but a life drawing from our Father, still green and still bearing fruit when everything around it is dry. The same picture opens the book of Psalms: “He is like a tree planted by streams of water” (Psalm 1:3).

Written by Spirit Media Publishing · Edited by Kevin White · Published November 6, 2026

Jeremiah 17:7 in context

⁵ This is what our Father says: Cursed is the one who trusts in mere humans, who relies on human strength, and whose heart turns away from me.

⁶ He will be like a bush in the wasteland that never finds relief even when it comes, dwelling in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

⁷ But blessed is the one who trusts in me, whose confidence is in me.

⁸ He will be like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots by the stream. It has no fear when heat comes; its leaves stay green. It is not anxious in the year of drought and never stops bearing fruit.

⁹ The heart is more deceitful than anything else and beyond cure—who can understand it?

¹⁰ I, your Father, search the heart and test the mind, to repay each person according to their ways, according to what their deeds deserve.

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Questions about Jeremiah 17:7

What does Jeremiah 17:7 say?

In Father's Heart Bible™, Jeremiah 17:7 reads: “But blessed is the one who trusts in me, whose confidence is in me.”

What does Jeremiah 17:7 mean?

Jeremiah 17:7 means that the person who trusts our Father, and puts their confidence in him rather than in human strength, is blessed. Verse 8 explains the blessing: like a tree planted by water, they still face heat and drought, but they are not anxious and they keep bearing fruit.

What is the tree in Jeremiah 17:7-8?

The tree is a picture of the person who trusts our Father. Its roots reach the stream, so its leaves stay green in heat and drought. It is set against the bush in the wasteland in verse 6, the picture of the one who trusts in mere humans and whose heart turns away from him.