Verse 9 is a crucial verse for understanding humanity. The human heart is fundamentally deceitful, and beyond cure, that is without the Holy Spirit of course. People are always doing things that surprise us, we can be astonished at the perversity of people at times. Indeed we can sometimes be surprised at the perversity of our own heart. This is the effect of sin in our lives.
But the Lord does know the heart and the mind. Sometimes we deceive ourselves and maybe think we deceive others, but we cannot deceive the Lord. Everyone will receive proper judgement.
The supposedly wise people of the world will ultimately be shown to be fools.
The Lord is a glorious throne, and He is the place of our sanctuary. The positive side of this is that when we trust in Him we are safe, the converse of this is that of we turn away from the Lord and trust in other things we will indeed be put to shame.
Verse 14 gives the necessary response to this. We need the Lord to heal us. Note that this (as in Isaiah 53) healing is healing from sin, not from disease (though that may well follow as well). This call to the Lord is Jeremiah's call. He is being accused of all sorts of things and mocked for his faith in the Lord (sound familiar?). So he dedicates himself to the Lord and calls on the Lord to protect him. This is what we should do too.
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