Jeremiah 23:24
Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
23Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?
2 Chronicles 6:18Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the earth? If heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee, how much less this house, which I have built?
Job 24:13They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths.
Psalms 90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 139:8The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the work of thy hands.
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 →