Jeremiah 23:24
If a man should hide himself in secret places should I not then see him? saith the Lord. Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? saith the Lord.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
23Am I a God for those near at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God for those who are afar off?
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27For in truth will God then dwell on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less then this house that I have built!
2 Chronicles 6:18For, in truth, will God then dwell with men on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less then this house that I have built!
Job 24:13Yon men are of those that rebel against the light: they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
Psalms 90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 139:8If I should ascend into heaven, thou art there; and if I should make my bed in the nether world, behold, thou art there.
Psalms 148:13Let them praise the name of the Lord; for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.
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 →