Jeremiah 23:29
Is not my word like a fire? saith the LORD? and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Webster Bible
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 5:14Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, Behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Luke 24:32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Acts 2:3And there appeared to them, cloven tongues as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
2 Corinthians 2:16To the one we are the savor of death to death; and to the other the savor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?
Hebrews 4:12For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents 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 →