Jeremiah 23:29
Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?
Bible in Basic English
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
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:14For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.
Luke 24:32And they said to one another, Were not our hearts burning in us while he was talking to us on the way, making clear to us the holy Writings?
Acts 2:3And they saw tongues, like flames of fire, coming to rest on every one of them.
2 Corinthians 2:16To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?
Hebrews 4:12For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
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 →