Jeremiah 23:18

For who hath stood in the council of the LORD, that he should perceive and hear His word? Who hath attended to His word, and heard it?

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 continually unto them that despise Me: 'The LORD hath said: Ye shall have peace'; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say: 'No evil shall come upon you';

19Behold, a storm of the LORD is gone forth in fury, yea, a whirling storm; it shall whirl upon the head of the wicked.

Read all of Jeremiah 23

Cross References

2 Chronicles 18:23Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the check, and said: 'Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?'

Job 21:22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing it is He that judgeth those that are high.

Isaiah 40:13Who hath meted out the spirit of the LORD? Or who was His counsellor that he might instruct Him?

Amos 3:7For the Lord GOD will do nothing, but He revealeth His counsel unto 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Jeremiah 23:18