Jeremiah 23:24
Can any hide himself in secret places that I, shall not see him? Demandeth Yahweh,—The heavens and the earth, do I not fill? Demandeth Yahweh.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
23Am I, a God at hand, Demandeth Yahweh, And not a God afar off?
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27But, in very deed, will God dwell, upon the earth? Lo! the heaven, yea the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?
2 Chronicles 6:18But, in very deed, will God dwell with man on the earth? Lo! the heavens, even the leaven of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built!
Job 24:13They, have become rebels against the light,—they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof.
Psalms 90:8Thou hast set, Our iniquities before thee, Our secret near the luminary of thy face.
Psalms 139:8If I ascend the heavens, there, thou art! If I spread out hades as my couch, behold thee!
Psalms 148:13Let them praise the Name of Yahweh, for lofty is his Name alone, His splendour is over earth and heavens.
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 →