Jeremiah 23:29
Is not my word, like this, Like fire? Demandeth Yahweh,—And like a hammer, that breaketh in pieces a cliff?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
In Context
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:14Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, God of hosts, Because ye have spoken this word,—Behold me! making my words in thy mouth to be fire, And, this people,—wood, So shall it devour them.
Luke 24:32And they said one to another—Was not, our heart, burning, as he was speaking to us in the way, as he was opening to us the Scriptures?
Acts 2:3And there appeared unto them—parting asunder—tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each one of them;
2 Corinthians 2:16In these, indeed, a fragrance out of death into death, but, in those, a fragrance out of life into life. And, for these things, who is sufficient?
Hebrews 4:12For, living, is the word of God, and, energetic, and more cutting than any knife with two edges, and penetrating as far as a dividing asunder of soul and spirit, of joints also, and marrow, and able to judge the impulses and designs of the heart;
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 →