Jeremiah 23:29
Is not my word like a fire, saith Jehovah; and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?
Darby Translation
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 5:14Therefore thus saith Jehovah, 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 one another, Was not our heart burning in us as he spoke to us on the way, [and] as he opened the scriptures to us?
Acts 2:3And there appeared to them parted tongues, as of fire, and it sat upon each one of them.
2 Corinthians 2:16to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who [is] sufficient for these things?
Hebrews 4:12For the word of God [is] living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to [the] division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents 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 →