Jeremiah 23:18

For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard it?

Updated King James Version

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 still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, All of you shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

19Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 18:23Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and stroke Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto you?

Job 21:22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that are high.

Isaiah 40:13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor has taught him?

Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets.

1 Corinthians 2:16For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may 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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