Jeremiah 23:29

Is not my word like fire? says LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

In Context

28The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says LORD.

30Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says LORD, who steal my words each one from his neighbor.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 5:14Therefore thus says LORD, the God of hosts: Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

Luke 24:32And they said to each other, Was not our heart burning within us while he spoke to us on the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?

Acts 2:3And there appeared to them dividing tongues, as of fire, and they settled upon each one of them.

2 Corinthians 2:16to the one an odor of death for death, and to the other an aroma of life for life. And who is adequate for these things?

Hebrews 4:12For the word of God is living, and potent, and sharper, above every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division both of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and discernible of the thoughts and intentions of the hear

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 →

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