Jeremiah 23:18

For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, and seen his word? who has hearkened, and heard?

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?

In Context

17They say to them that reject the word of the Lord, There shall be peace to you; and to all that walk after their own lusts, and to every one that walks in the error of his heart, they have said, No evil shall come upon thee.

19Behold, there is an earthquake from the Lord, and anger proceeds to a convulsion, it shall come violently upon the ungodly.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 18:23Then Sedekias the son of Chanaan drew near, and smote Michaias on the cheek, and said to him, By what way passed the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak to thee?

Job 21:22Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?

Isaiah 40:13+ 40:13 Rom. 11. 34. Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him?

Amos 3:7For the Lord God will do nothing, without revealing instruction to his servants the prophets.

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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