Jeremiah 23:24
Can any man hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
23Am I a God at hand, says LORD, and not a God afar off?
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. How much less this house that I have built!
2 Chronicles 6:18But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. How much less this house which I have built!
Job 24:13These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.
Psalms 90:8Thou have set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 139:8If I ascend up into heaven, thou are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou are there.
Psalms 148:13Let them praise the name of LORD, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 23:10-33
Guilt of False Prophets. ( b. c. 600.) 9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord , and because of the words of his holiness. 10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. 11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their… Read the whole commentary →