Jeremiah 23:18

For who hath stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should see and hear his word? Who hath given ear to his word and heard it?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 keep on saying to them who despise me, Yahweh, hath spoken, saying, Prosperity, shall ye have! And to every one who is going on in the stubbornness of his own heart, have they said, There shall come on you, no calamity

19Lo! the tempest of Yahweh! Indignation, hath come forth, Even a tempest whirling along: On the head of the lawless, shall it hurl itself down.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 18:23Then drew near Zedekiah son of Chenaanah, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek,—and said, Which then is the way the spirit of Yahweh passed from me, to speak with thee?

Job 21:22Is it, to GOD, one can teach knowledge, seeing that, he, shall judge, them who are on high?

Isaiah 40:13Who hath proved the spirit of Yahweh? Or being his counsellor hath been giving him knowledge?

Amos 3:7Surely My Lord Yahweh, will do, nothing,—except he have disclosed his secret unto his servants, the prophets!

1 Corinthians 2:16For who hath come to know the mind of the Lord, that shall instruct him? But, we, have, the mind of Christ.

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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